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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Ministerial Priesthood v. Common Priesthood

      Those people who are baptized by regeneration and anointing of the Holy Spirit. have inside of them a spiritual house and a holy priesthood. In all these works that are also those of a common Christian man, they may offer spiritual sacrifices and proclaim the power of him who has called them out of darkness and into His great light. Therefore all the people of God who pray and praise God should be a holy and pleasing sacrifice to God. All over Earth they are called to bear witness to Christ and give an answer to those who seek and hope for the eternal life which is bestowed inside them.
      Though ministerial priesthood and the common priesthood are different in essence and degree, they are not interrelated. Each of them inits own special way is a participation in one Christ's priesthoods. The ministerial priesthood uses His sacred power and authority to teach and rule the priestly by acting inside of Christ and presents the Eucharist to God for all people. So the faithful in virtue of their royal priesthood join in the offering the Eucharist, Along with these powers the priest exercises receiving the sacraments, bearing witness of the Holy life, prayers of thanksgiving, and doing charity.

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