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en It's a gift to be able to open my heart to God and prayer, to be able to serve people. Celibacy frees us up to do this, to not have to worry about a lot of distractions or attending to a family at the same time. The love of my life is the church and Christ. This is a commitment not only to them, but also to the people. I think celibacy really shows Catholics how devoted their priests are.

en A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.
  Pope Benedict XVI

en The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
  Pope John Paul II

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en What I struggle with is the mandatory celibacy. But I've always had this unfolding desire to serve the church. If I'm married or a priest or single, I'm still serving God.

en Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood,

en These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.

en For the past 20 years, I've been privileged to pastor a congregation of people whose focus and heart have been the gospel of Jesus Christ, who reveals God's love for all people and who by the Holy Spirit empowers us to live and to serve in love.

en Open in his hand was a solid gift of the Church - or, as he thought of it at this moment, a gift from God to the Church, for a distilled grammar of faith and practice. The Book of Common Prayer its treasure was great and always ready. He loved the taste of the phrases in his mouth.

en I try and take the family with me everywhere I can. It's getting harder the more kids I have. But celibacy sucks.

en The celibate practices celibacy, but his heart is filled with pride.

en But can I live with celibacy? That's a hard decision to make. Some people don't understand why somebody would choose that. But it's part of the vocation, so how are you going to accept it in a healthy way?

en 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.

en Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Being an African-American woman, I'd been faced with some ugly (racial) things in my life. When I went there, the home was so bright, and it was cheerful. It was amazing. The mother was 100-percent devoted, and the father, too, and the big church family. ... That was the true outreach that people imagine churches to be.

en The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.


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