Being a Priest Today

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Rosalind Brown. Being a Priest Today

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Being a Priest Today

Christopher Cocksworth and Rosalind Brown

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Just as in the dynamics of salvation ‘nothing in our hands we bring, simply to the cross we cling’, so in the dynamics of ministry all we can do is to offer ourselves to God in our weakness, even offer our weakness itself to God, trusting that God’s ‘extraordinary power’ (2 Corinthians 4:7) will be manifested through us. Yes, training for ministry is important, but the fundamental lesson to be learnt in any course of theological education is that ‘our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant’ (2 Corinthians 4:5–6).

Aelred, the abbot of a large Cistercian monastery in Yorkshire during the twelfth century, had a profound sense of his own inadequacy for the responsibility that had been placed upon him. His Pastoral Prayer is a moving manifesto of ministerial weakness.

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