By Jose Julian Meneses
In the normal understanding “Priest” means the preacher of God. Priest preaches the Gospel or the Good News of the Lord to the people. As Christians, we have the idea of Priest because of our religion. In this religion, there is the priest that has the task to give himself to the people. They are ordained publicly because in order to show to the people that priests are for the people, they are ordained to serve the people. Our idea of priests is we expect them that they are called to serve, that they have committed themselves and decided to undergo suffer for the goodness of Christianity. Well, priests should be like this, just like our present Pope Francis I; he makes his life simple as he can be.
Looking in the reality, as Christians, we know that there is the crisis in the priesthood. There are some priests that do not fit in our expectations in being what should be a priest. Priests are called to serve as they committed themselves for the people. But is this really happening? Well some priests do but some are not. In a bigger view, what are some priests now in the world? Well, we can hear some negative information about some priests because they themselves do not live as priests; we could see that some priests are in totally comfort. Why is this so? Because they do not live the idea of “priest should have the only ideal priest and that is Jesus Christ”. If Jesus is not the ideal priest or model in the priesthood then there would be different ideals. That’s why there is a crisis in priesthood because every priest could have their own different principles in their priestly life as they have their different ideals.
My conclusion, there is no crisis in priesthood if every priest have the same and only one ideal priest, Jesus Christ, because He is our salvation. He saved us from the crisis.
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