priest
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1. priest - Noun
2. priest - Verb
3. Priest - Proper noun
Meaning
A presbyter elder; a minister
One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.
To ordain as priest.
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The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, even as God, Whom he serves.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
Formerly a lamb was offered, a calf was offered. Christ is offered today...and he offers himself as priest in order that he may remit our sins: here in image, there in truth where, as our advocate, he intercedes for us before the Father.
Priest on the outside, Satan on the inside.
A priest blesses his own bread first.
It is a poor parish where the priest has to ring his own bells.