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Continue reading and listening @ http://www.brendanflannagan.com/what-is-a-priest/
This month Pope Francis announced his decision to consider married men for ordination as a type of pseudo-priest for service to the Roman Catholic faithful. The Reason? The Roman Church suffers a lack of single men applying for ordination. In the US there are 2,500 Catholics per priest. In Brazil, the country of greatest need, there are 8,000 Catholics per priest.
So, to solve the problem Francis opened this topic for discussion in the upper echelons of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. He seems to be using the same method, as when he discussed the possibility of female deacons, saying, the Catholic faithful must ask, “What does this mean at that time [of the Bible]? What does it mean today?” He continued by encouraging the faithful to search the Scriptures, saying, “Don’t be afraid! That makes us free.”
Today, in the 500th year of the reformation, we will ask the same question: “What is a Priest?”
Interestingly enough, this call to search the Scriptures for the divine answers is identical to the call of Christ (John 5:39) and served to rally the Reformation, as many in the 15th and 16th century humanist movement cried “ad fontes” or back to the sources- a plea to return to the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts composing our modern Bible. This is something we must remember: the Church did not decide the Scriptures, they were written long before, circulated among believers for hundreds of years before the church collected these known documents and placed them into the canon.
If you desire to know more about the Bible, go to our past podcast- “What is the Bible?”
So, let’s go back to the Scriptures- the fountainhead of meaning- and discover the purpose of the priesthood. Then, we may understand how such an institution fits into the modern church.
The priesthood is first explicitly defined in the time of Moses. Men have offered sacrifices since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden, but God first instituted the priesthood in relation to His covenant with Israel. In Leviticus 10:8-11, we read of the first ordination and the duty of the priests.
The Lord then spoke to Aaron, saying, “Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations—and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean, and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”
Priests have two primary roles: they are called to offer sacrifices and teach the people. The sacrifice serves as the object lesson to the Scriptural teaching.
Continue reading and listening @ http://www.brendanflannagan.com/what-is-a-priest/
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This month Pope Francis announced his decision to consider married men for ordination as a type of pseudo-priest for service to the Roman Catholic faithful. The Reason? The Roman Church suffers a lack of single men applying for ordination. In the US there are 2,500 Catholics per priest. In Brazil, the country of greatest need, there are 8,000 Catholics per priest.
So, to solve the problem Francis opened this topic for discussion in the upper echelons of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. He seems to be using the same method, as when he discussed the possibility of female deacons, saying, the Catholic faithful must ask, “What does this mean at that time [of the Bible]? What does it mean today?” He continued by encouraging the faithful to search the Scriptures, saying, “Don’t be afraid! That makes us free.”
Today, in the 500th year of the reformation, we will ask the same question: “What is a Priest?”
Interestingly enough, this call to search the Scriptures for the divine answers is identical to the call of Christ (John 5:39) and served to rally the Reformation, as many in the 15th and 16th century humanist movement cried “ad fontes” or back to the sources- a plea to return to the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts composing our modern Bible. This is something we must remember: the Church did not decide the Scriptures, they were written long before, circulated among believers for hundreds of years before the church collected these known documents and placed them into the canon.
If you desire to know more about the Bible, go to our past podcast- “What is the Bible?”
So, let’s go back to the Scriptures- the fountainhead of meaning- and discover the purpose of the priesthood. Then, we may understand how such an institution fits into the modern church.
The priesthood is first explicitly defined in the time of Moses. Men have offered sacrifices since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden, but God first instituted the priesthood in relation to His covenant with Israel. In Leviticus 10:8-11, we read of the first ordination and the duty of the priests.
The Lord then spoke to Aaron, saying, “Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations—and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean, and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”
Priests have two primary roles: they are called to offer sacrifices and teach the people. The sacrifice serves as the object lesson to the Scriptural teaching.
Continue reading and listening @ http://www.brendanflannagan.com/what-is-a-priest/