To thank our heavenly Father for the Priesthood is to have gratitude to our Father for His son Jesus who is our High Priest. Hebrews 4:14 NAB
1 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.
The new testament alone has over 150 verses that speak of the priest(s) in one form or an other. The Holy Catholic Church holds this office of the Priesthood in high respect for this eternal office of Jesus that he established in His flesh which continues in His church, His Body on earth.
Catechism 1548
It is the same priest, Christ Jesus, whose sacred person his minister truly represents. Now the minister, by reason of the sacerdotal consecration which he has received, is truly made like to the high priest and possesses the authority to act in the power and place of the person of Christ himself (virtute ac persona ipsius Christi).24
Christ is the source of all priesthood: the priest of the old law was a figure of Christ, and the priest of the new law acts in the person of Christ.25
Remember how Jesus taught His disciples to pray:
Matthew 6:9-13
"This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, 7 your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
8 Give us today our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, 9 as we forgive our debtors;
and do not subject us to the final test, 10 but deliver us from the evil one.
What a blessing that the Priesthood on earth today as a true representation of our High Priest Jesus in heaven. AMEN!
Happy Father’s Day!
