The priestly vocation is a very precious gift from God, especially a world that tends to exclude Him. This is what Benedict XVI recalled in his speech to the 500 participants in a recent congress promoted by the Congregation for the Clergy.“There is great need for priests who speak of God to the world and who present the world to God;” the Pope said, “men not subject to ephemeral cultural fashions, but capable of authentically living the freedom that only the certainty of belonging to God can give.”“Our limitations and weaknesses,” the Pope explained, “must induce us to live and safeguard this precious gift with great faith, a gift with which Christ configured us to Himself, making us participants in His mission of salvation.”

The priestly vocation is a very precious gift from God, especially a world that tends to exclude Him. This is what Benedict XVI recalled in his speech to the 500 participants in a recent congress...leggi tutto