Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest. He is the Priest because He sacrificed Himself in Calvary for our salvation and in obedience to His Father. In the Old Testament, priests sacrificed something to God. In the New Order, Jesus is both the Priest and the Victim, the one who offers sacrifice and the one who is offered in sacrifice. The Priest and the Victim are the same. Since we endeavor to imitate Christ as Priest we need to get used to adopting the attitude of having ourselves sacrificed for God's glory. In being faithful to our duties of state, we need to sacrifice ourselves always so that the others may live and have the advantage. This happens in the spirit of service of parents to raise their babies. Teacher efface themselves so that their students learn and reach higher heights than their teachers have achieved.
