By Leander S. Harding

ISBN-10: 1498264212

ISBN-13: 9781498264211

ISBN-10: 1620322692

ISBN-13: 9781620322697

The very notice “priest” is a observe of controversy and rivalry within the Church. during this selection of essays, sermons, and meditations, an ordained priest within the Anglican culture defends using the time period and argues that the renewal of the priesthood of the folks calls for a suitable appreciation of the ability and dignity of holy orders. This ebook, which comes out of thirty years of pastoral ministry, is an encouragement to the ordained to persevere in love and hence satisfy the calling to maintain alive on the center of the church the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ, the nice excessive priest.

“With lots of our dialog this present day desirous about ministry as middle-management, treatment, or leisure, this booklet facilities our knowing of the priesthood within the priestly ministry of Christ and . . . within the centrality of Christ’s self-offering. Harding ably and deftly connects the theological grounding of the priesthood with sensible and potent feedback for education and elevating up new leaders who're outfitted to successfully and certainly proportion the gospel . . . in a tradition desperately wanting its saving promise.”
—Rev. Robert Hendrickson, Cofounder of the Society of Catholic monks in North America

“This number of essays and meditations at the priestly ministry of God’s humans brims with pastoral heat, scholarly brilliance, and soul-nourishing knowledge. Harding is one among just a couple of authors who might handle this topic in this sort of deft and beneficiant manner.”
—Ian Morgan Cron, bestselling writer of Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me: A Memoir . . . of Sorts and Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale

Leander S. Harding is an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church. After twenty-six years of parish ministry and 8 years as a seminary instructor he now serves as Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Catskill, manhattan. he's the writer of ''In the Breaking of the Bread'' and ''Reverence for the guts of the Child'', either by means of Wipf & Stock.

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