The Priest Is Not His Own

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>THE PRIEST</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>IS NOT HIS OWN</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By Fulton J. Sheen</em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Priest Is Not His Own</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is far more than a book for priests or for those considering the priesthood as a vocation. In these penetrating deeply pondered discussions of the priesthood Bishop Fulton J. Sheen has produced a work of lasting value a book that will perhaps change many hundreds of lives and certainly a book that will also interest readers who have no direct concern with the priesthood as a calling.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inspiration for this volume came while Bishop Sheen was writing his famed </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Life of Christ</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and it was out of those dark days as he describes them that the thoughts of priesthood illumined by the vision of Christ the Savior were first formulated.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Just as the earlier work was based on the thesis that Christ offered no other sacrifice but Himself so in this new book Bishop Sheen envisages the priest as a man sacrificing himself in the prolongation of Christ's Incarnation.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bishop Sheen writes of how all priests whether pagan or in the Old Testament offered victims distinct from themselves such as lambs. But in Christ and the Christian conception priest and victim are united inseparably.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Drawing on his profound knowledge of Scripture Bishop Sheen is able to describe the exact and true significance of the individual priest and in vibrant detail his constant unending sacrifice as victim.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In considering the priest's many obligations and roles and his ever more gratifying fulfilment of them Bishop Sheen has created a series of unsurpassed meditations. It is a very concrete guide to the many ways in which each priest can enrich his own spiritual life as well as the lives of all those around him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Archbishop Fulton Sheen brings the life of the Priesthood of Christ into terms of sacrifice suffering and vindication. This book is amazing in that while it speaks primarily to the ministerial Priesthood the lessons learned can be translated easily to the priesthood of the faithful through Baptism. The depth of this teaching of what a priest is and not what a priest does is amazing. Sheen's ability to speak of deep subjects directly yet with poetic beauty is mesmerizing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Priest Is Not His Own</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the work of a great and beloved inspirational leader - a world-famous priest himself writing eloquently and insistently to his colleagues and to those who would join him in a calling he understands and has most brilliantly realized.</span></p>