Difference between priest vs. Priest

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I perform Catholic Prison Ministry at Alexander Correctional Facility. At our next Bible Study I am going to have a lesson on Christian discipleship. In the Sacrament of Baptism we are baptized into the threefold mission of Jesus to be a priest, prophet and king. What is the difference in the layperson’s call to be a priest as opposed to a Priest of the Priesthood?
 
A Christian layperson is called to be part of a “royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9), just as all Israelites were called to be part of a “kingdom of priests” (Exodus 19:6). We don’t have the faculties of ordained priests, but are called to holiness and a life of service to God.
 
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