\u201cWhoever wants to be a Priest to be served has already lost the meaning of the Gospel. The Priest is one who learns every day to give his life for others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Chimoio noted that Priestly ordination is not a human promotion but a radical call to configuration with Christ the Servant, requiring a break with all forms of personal prestige.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Priest is constituted to serve the people of God and not to serve himself through them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Catholic Church leader further underscored the need for consistency between liturgical celebration and daily pastoral life, warning that credibility in ministry depends on authenticity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere cannot be two styles of life in a Priest, one before the altar and another outside of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Apostolic Administrator cautioned against temptations such as the pursuit of comfort, recognition, and the misuse of authority, which can distort the essence of Priestly Ministry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe greatest risk for a Priest is to forget that he was chosen to serve and begin living for himself,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Chimoio underscored the central role of prayer in sustaining priestly life, saying that without a deep relationship with God, ministry loses its meaning and depth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout prayer, the priest becomes merely a functionary of the sacred,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Chimoio also called on the Priests-elect to remain close to their people, sharing in their joys and sufferings as part of their pastoral mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhoever wants to be a Priest to be served has already lost the meaning of the Gospel. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1673,24887,24886,2899],"class_list":["post-82653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-article","tag-cna","tag-keyword","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}