.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe canon of the biblical books was slow to formulate (four centuries). Also, it has been argued that priesthood was a subdued feature of primitive Christianity because it had not yet finally separated from Judaism; therefore, the authority of Jewish priests was still accepted. Acts 2:46 (RSV) describes the Jerusalem Christians as \u201cday by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Apostle Paul was presenting offerings in the temple around the year 58 (Acts 21:26), acknowledged the authority of the Jewish high priest, described himself as a Pharisee (Acts 23:5-6), and observed Jewish feasts (Acts 20:6).<\/p>\n
That said, one can still find much evidence in the Bible of a Christian priesthood. Jesus entrusts to His disciples a remembrance of the central aspect of the liturgy or Mass (consecration of the bread and wine) at the Last Supper (Lk 22:19: \u201cDo this in remembrance of me\u201d). Paul may also have presided over a Eucharist (Acts 20:11: \u201cPaul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten\u201d).<\/p>\n
These same disciples were (like priests) models of a life wholly devoted to God, as a matter of lifelong calling. Jesus had chosen and \u201cappointed\u201d them, and they had become His \u201cfriends\u201d (Jn 15:15-16). He was their sole master (Mt 6:24). There was no turning back in their ministry (Lk 9:62), and they were called to a radical commitment involving even leaving possessions and their entire families:<\/p>\n
Matthew 19:27<\/strong> Then Peter said in reply, \u201cLo, we have left everything and followed you. . . .\u201d (cf. 4:22)<\/p>\nLuke 14:26<\/strong> If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.<\/p>\nThe priest-disciple must accept hardships and privations and embrace self-denial:<\/p>\n
Matthew 16:24<\/strong> Then Jesus told his disciples, \u201cIf any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.\u201d (cf. Mt 10:38; 8:19-20)<\/p>\nCelibacy, for the sake of undistracted devotion to the Lord, is commended, provided that someone is called to it:<\/p>\n
Matthew 19:12<\/strong> For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.<\/p>\n1 Corinthians 7:32-35 <\/strong>I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;[33] but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife, [34] and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband. [35] I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.<\/p>\nPriests serve the Body of Christ (1 Cor 3:5; 9:19; 2 Cor 4:5), and dispense sacraments (1 Cor 4:1; Jas 5:14), including baptism (Mt 28:19; Acts 2:38, 41). A universal priesthood of \u201coffering\u201d (sacrifice) extending to \u201cevery place\u201d in New Testament times is prophesied in Isaiah 66:18, 21 and Malachi 1:11.<\/p>\n
Protestants sometimes cite 1 Peter 2:5, 9 to the effect that all <\/em>Christians are priests. But Peter was citing Exodus 19:6: \u201cyou shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.\u201d The problem with this is that the older passage couldn\u2019t possibly have meant that there was no priesthood among the ancient Hebrews, since they clearly had a separate class of priests (Leviticus: chapters 4-7, 13-14).<\/p>\nThis is even seen in the same chapter, since Exodus 19:21-24 twice contrasts \u201cpriests\u201d and \u201cpeople.\u201d Thus, it makes much more sense to interpret 1 Peter 2:5 as meaning a separate, holy, \u201cchosen\u201d class of priests. But the notion of \u201cspiritual sacrifices\u201d (faith, praise, giving to others) does<\/em> apply to all Christians (Phil 2:17; Heb 13:15-16).<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) in 1956 [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons] * * * * * Our Protestant friends (particularly evangelicals) sometimes claim that all Christians are priests, and that there is no special class set apart from others in the Church. I submit, however (and hope to show below) that the Bible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,58],"tags":[598,593,595,599,365,597,596,592,594,417,385],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-ecclesiology","category-eucharist-liturgy","tag-apostolic-succession","tag-catholic-priests","tag-consecration","tag-eucharist","tag-holy-communion","tag-holy-orders","tag-ordination","tag-priests","tag-sacerdotalism","tag-sacrifice-of-the-mass","tag-transubstantiation"],"yoast_head":"\n
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