Fatherhood

The fullness of fatherhood is found in the priesthood, not the laity. Why? Because every mother feeds her baby Eucharistically, by that I mean with her own body and blood, first in the womb, and then by her milk if she so chooses (and I confess I hope she does). Compared with such unity, such provision, what do fathers have with their children? Fathers make many great and magnificent sacrifices of their time, energy, and lives (hoping and praying to be one, I would never deny it). But they cannot so feed their families with their very life blood. The sublime dignity of the priesthood is such that it allows men to know the fullness of such provision, granted to men by the Providence of God Himself. In this way they enter into Christ and so feed their flocks with His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, which for that moment have become theirs, as Christ is the Father's. By the working of the Holy Spirit, they are united with the Father Himself, through the Sacrament of the Altar.