I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He's the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things... they are rooted to the role of the man.
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.
He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
A man's character is his guardian divinity.
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
The priest is the personification of falsehood.