ORDINATION & FIRST MASS

“From the cradle to the grave the priest is ever beside the faithful, a guide, a solace, a minister of salvation and dispenser of grace and blessing… These august powers are conferred upon the priest in a special Sacrament designed to this end: they are not merely passing or temporary in the priest, but are stable and perpetual, united as they are with the indelible character imprinted on his soul whereby he becomes ‘a priest forever’; whereby he becomes like unto Him in whose eternal priesthood he has been made a sharer.”