Today’s thought is by Michael Ramsey
I regard the contemporary development of a priesthood which combines a ministry of word and sacrament with employment in a secular profession not as a modem fad but as a recovery of something indubitably apostolic and primitive …What we call our ‘auxiliaries’ today belong most truly to the apostolic foundation, and we may learn from them of that inner meaning of priesthood which we share with them.
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961-1974. In the first edition of ‘The Christian Priest Today’, 1972.
Open our hearts to your power moving around us and between us and within us, until your glory is revealed in our love of both friend and enemy, in communities transformed by justice and compassion, and in the healing of all that is broken. Amen.