“What is a priest! A man who holds the place of God–a man who is invested with all the powers of God. ‘Go,’ said Our Lord to the priest; ‘as My Father has sent me, I send you. All power has been given me in Heaven and on earth. Go then, teach all nations. . .He who listens to you, listens to Me; he who despises you despises Me.’ When the priest remits sins, he does not say, ‘God pardons you’; he says, ‘I absolve you.’ At the Consecration, he does not say, ‘This is the Body of Our Lord’; he says, ‘This is My Body.'”
