Apr 05 2007
Thirteenth Station
Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross
“Every priest at death wants to be laid in Mary’s arms as was the Christ, Whose representative he is. As Mary said, after the Crucifixion, over her Son, Who was laid in her arms, “This is my Body”, so she will say at the death of every priest, “This is my body, my victim, my host. As I formed Jesus the Priest in my womb to be a Victim, so I helped Jesus, Sacerdos-Hostia, to grow in Thee.”
Is it any wonder, then, that she is the Woman in every priest’s life? No priest is his own. He belongs to the Mother of Jesus, once and always the Priest-Victim.”
(Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: The Priest Is Not His Own)
