If we truly understand how the Sacraments are God’s remedy given to mere human beings in the priesthood as the healing art for a world wrought with spiritual cancer, priesthood then becomes a meaningful life. Often when I begin a conversation with young men about the priesthood, I will ask them if they would be a priest if God called them to it? Some will say yes, and many will say no. Why would anyone say they would actually say “No” to God unless they didn’t understand who God is and what priesthood is? In the example about the “injectable cure for cancer,” young men will inevitably say that they would give up everything to be able to give the cure for physical cancer, because when great human need meets a healing art, there is a meaningful life. There is so much spiritual cancer in the world. An essential remedy for this spiritual cancer is the Catholic priesthood.
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