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The Priest
By Peace | September 16, 2011
It is 1.45am, 17 September 2011, but I am ‘writing’ about what had happened on 16 September 2011.
I was sitting on yet another kind of special ‘carriage’. This time, it was like a train, but it was not a train. The carriage was like an open vessel, and I was sitting on it. It was like a shopping centre. I came and I went in the carriage and I was ‘carried’ upslope (just like traveling in a lift) — however, unlike the lift which carried passengers up and down, this carriage travels in distances, like that of the roller coaster/train. In total, I was carried in the carriage twice in the dream, and it was a 2 ‘journeys’. The first one and the second one consists of the same journey (the same location and to the same destination), but the side of the carriage was different in height — the safety of the carriage. The second one seemed to be shorter than the first (meaning, the first one has a longer side wall all around me, so could not see the externals easily).
Although I could not remember the details of the dream, but a part of the dream was so significant. It was the end of the dream, a ‘puzzle’.
This dream involves my mother, a shopping centre, and ‘a scene of witnessing’ something. If I am not wrong, it was a crowd of people (many), all watching or doing something to a child (or boy/teen), being striped (the young boy was not wearing any clothes). It was about rescuing.
It was like a show. I saw seats. The scene was like that of the cinema, with seats for the audience and the stage/screen in front. I saw Father Terence sitting on the seat. He was wearing white (80%) and red (20%), those priestly clothes/robe (red part is like the scarf, a piece of cloth, but not scarf — don’t know what it is called). On Father Terence’s right hand side was an empty seat. I was the one who occupied the seat! In this dream, Father Terence’s face was Father Terence’s face ( I can tell), but Father Terence was much more plump than now — he was not wearing spectacle, and he must be younger than now…
Catechism on Priesthood by St John Vianney
MY children, we have come to the Sacrament of Orders. It is a Sacrament which seems to relate to no one among you, and which yet relates to everyone. This Sacrament raises man up to God. What is a priest! A man who holds the place of God — a man who is invested with all the powers of God. “Go,” said Our Lord to the priest; “as My Father sent Me, I send you. All power has been given Me in Heaven and on earth. Go then, teach all nations. . . . He who listens to you, listens to Me; he who despises you despises Me.” When the priest remits sins, he does not say, “God pardons you”; he says, “I absolve you.” At the Consecration, he does not say, “This is the Body of Our Lord;” he says, “This is My Body.”
Channel of Every Heavenly Grace Saint Bernard tells us that everything has come to us through Mary; and we may also say that everything has come to us through the priest; yes, all happiness, all graces, all heavenly gifts. If we had not the Sacrament of Orders, we should not have Our Lord. Who placed Him there, in that tabernacle. It was the priest. Who was it that received your soul, on its entrance into life? The priest. Who nourishes it, to give it strength to make its pilgrimage? The priest. Who will prepare it to appear before God, by washing that soul, for the last time, in the Blood of Jesus Christ? The priest — always the priest. And if that soul comes to the point of death, who will raise it up, who will restore it to calmness and peace? Again the priest. You cannot recall one single blessing from God without finding, side by side with this recollection, the image of the priest.
The Priest Holds the Key of the Heavenly Treasures
Go to confession to the Blessed Virgin, or to an angel; will they absolve you? No. Will they give you the Body and Blood of Our Lord? No. The Holy Virgin cannot make her Divine Son descend into the Host. You might have two hundred angels there, but they could not absolve you. A priest, however simple he maybe,can do it; he can say to you, “Go in peace; I pardon you.” Oh, how great is a priest! The priest will not understand the greatness of his office till he is in Heaven. If he understood it on earth, he would die, not of fear, but of love. The other benefits of God would be of no avail to us without the priest. What would be the use of a house full of gold, if you had nobody to open you the door! The priest has the key of the heavenly treasures; it is he who opens the door; he is the steward of the good God, the distributor of His wealth.
The Priest is Ordained for You
The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself. He is not for himself, he is for you. After God, the priest is everything. Leave a parish twenty years without priests; they will worship beasts. If the missionary Father and I were to go away, you would say, “What can we do in this church? there is no Mass; Our Lord is no longer there: we may as well pray at home.” When people wish to destroy religion, they begin by attacking the priest, because where there is no longer any priest there is no sacrifice, and where there is no longer any sacrifice there is no religion.
“The Word of a Priest Makes a God”
When the bell calls you to church, if you were asked, “Where are you going?” You might answer, “I am going to feed my soul.” If someone were to ask you, pointing to the tabernacle, “What is that golden door?” “That is our storehouse, where the true Food of our souls is kept.” “Who has the key? Who lays in the provisions? Who makes ready the feast, and who serves the table?” “The priest.” “And what is the Food?” “The precious Body and Blood of Our Lord. “ O God! O God! How Thou hast loved us! See the power of the priest; out of a piece of bread the word of a priest makes a God. It is more than creating the world…
If I were to meet a priest and an angel, I should salute the priest before I saluted the angel. The latter is the friend of God; but the priest holds His place. Saint Teresa kissed the ground where a priest had passed. When you see a priest, you should say, “There is he who made me a child of God, and opened Heaven to me by holy Baptism; he who purified me after I had sinned; who gives nourishment to my soul.” At the sight of a church tower, you may say, “What is there in that place?” “The Body of Our Lord.” “Why is He there?” “Because a priest has been there, and has said holy Mass.”
Think of Jesus When You See the Priest
What joy did the Apostles feel after the Resurrection of Our Lord, at seeing the Master whom they had loved so much! The priest must feel the same joy, at seeing Our Lord whom he holds in his hands. Great value is attached to objects which have been laid in the drinking cup of the Blessed Virgin and of the Child Jesus, at Loretto. But the fingers of the priest, that have touched the adorable Flesh of Jesus Christ, that have been plunged into the chalice which contained His Blood, into the pyx where His Body has lain, are they not still more precious? The priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus. When you see the priest, think of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Extracted from the book “The Little Catechism of The Cure of Ars”
From a humble beginning as a farm boy and a seminarian who was not good in his studies, St. John Vianney became someone who could draw 100,000 pilgrims each year to his rural parish in Ars, France. These pilgrims would line up, sometimes for days in advance for him to hear their confession because he had the gift of reading a person’s soul. However, St. John Vianney suffered deeply too for the Lord as he was tormented very frequently in the night by the devil for 35 years. He would hear sounds at night and the voice of the devil mocking him. Pope John Paul II referred to him as a “rare example of a pastor acutely aware of his responsibilities…and a sign of courage for those who today experienced the grace of being called to the priesthood.”
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