{"product_id":"the-priestly-life","title":"The Priestly Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGod has no need for anythin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eg, \u003c\/b\u003eproclaims St. Paul in the midst of the Areopagus. God has no need for mankind: He creates men and women out of pure generosity. The priesthood, remarks Monsignor Ronald Knox, is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God “could have done without [priests], but he preferred to have, once more, a kind of tool through which his action should express itself. Tools in his hand, that is what we priests were to be.” Comprising sixteen retreat talks, \u003ci\u003eThe Priestly Life \u003c\/i\u003emeditates upon the character and purpose of the priestly office. The priest is an essential instrument in the economy of salvation; “he lends his hands, to be Christ’s hands, his voice, to be Christ’s voice, his thoughts, to be Christ’s thoughts; there is, there should be, nothing of himself in it from first to last, except where the Church allows him, during two brief intervals of silence, to remember his own intentions before God.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eDelivered with the rhetorical poise and spiritual substance typical of Knox’s preaching, \u003ci\u003eThe Priestly Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a spirited affirmation of the dignity and duties of the priesthood, one certain to lend support and inspiration to those men called to be \u003ci\u003ealter Christi\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951726\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100035998063,"sku":"978-1685951726","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product15552.jpg?v=1781124761","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-priestly-life","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}