The Priest Is Not His Own by Fulton Sheen

By Fulton Sheen

The loved Archbishop Sheen, whose reason for canonization is open in Rome, provides a profound and deeply religious examine the which means of the priesthood and courting of the priest with Christ as an "alter Christus".

Sheen delves deeply into what he considers the most personality of the priesthood, and one hardly ever mentioned, that of being, like Christ, a "holy victim". To be like Christ, Sheen emphasizes that the priest needs to imitate Christ in His instance of sacrifice, supplying himself as a sufferer to make His Incarnation always found in the world.

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