Priesthood is a life marked by compassion, pope tells Rome clergy

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Priesthood isn’t a job that one fulfills a few hours a day, but it is a way of life focused on serving as a bridge between God and suffering humanity, Pope Benedict XVI told priests of the Diocese of Rome.
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Priests are called to live not just “in blessed contemplation,” but “to enter like Christ into human misery and take it up, going to the people who are suffering” and sharing their pain, the pope said Feb. 18 as he led the clergy in “lectio divina,” a prayerful reading and meditation on selections from the Letter to the Hebrews on the mystery of priesthood.
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Priests are called to be “real mediators between humanity and God,” he said, and in order to do so they must be totally dedicated to God, yet fully human and deeply compassionate in the face of the concerns, anxieties, joys and sorrows of others.
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