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I am not your priest. Jesus is. And that's such good news.... You and I need to pray with this more. We have to drink deeply of the reality that we have a high priest that is the greatest priest imaginable. —Fr. Brian -"Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession." (Hebrews 4:14) -"Every high priest is taken from among men and made their representative before God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins." (Hebrews 5:1) -"Aaron shall offer the bull, his purification offering, to make atonement* for himself and for his household." (Leviticus 16:6) -The good news of the New Testament, and what Hebrews is all about, is that our sacrifice is not a bull or a goat. It's Jesus Himself. Whatever your sin is tonight, whatever you've done, whatever the brokenness is in your life, whatever that message is that Satan is whispering in your ear—when he tells you that your sin is too great, or that your heart is too corrupt—whatever that message is, your sacrifice is not a bull or a goat, my sacrifice is not a grain offering or a drink offering or a blood offering. Jesus, you are my offering. You are my sacrifice. You are the one atonement that won my forgiveness. Jesus, you are my priest. -Fr. Brian ​​​​Men are called to priesthood to sacrifice their life in union with Jesus Christ. -Fr. Brian -The Priest is Not His Own by Fulton Sheen -You are not called to be the type of Christian who says, 'Lord, I love you, I'll give you part of my time.' -Fr. Brian -'Through Him, with Him, and in Him,' all of us offer not just an external sacrifice, but we offer ourselves with our high priest. -Fr. Brian -"It happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him." (Mark 1:9-10) -"Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom." (Mark 15:37-38) -"Jesus said to them, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?'" (Mark 10:38) -The day you were baptized, you were united to the death of Jesus Christ. -Fr. Brian -"The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him." (Romans 8:16-17) -Do you want to be a good Christian? To be a Christian means to be united to the suffering of Jesus, because you love. When the Church loves that way, when you and I enter into true discipleship, when we follow Jesus in a way that says, 'Here's everything, Lord. Here's not ten percent, here's my whole life, I'll lay it down.' When you and I do that, people find God. —Fr Brian