One day...
there will be no more Masses,
no more need of temporal priests,
because all of us,
through the labors of priests, of bishops,
of catechists, of lay ministers of the word,
of all God’s priestly people...
will have achieved
humanity’s incorporation into Christ,
and Christ will be the one priest,
formed in his historical and eternal fullness
by all of us who in the course of history
have made with him...
one sole priesthood,
one sole offertory, one sole Mass
that will last eternally
to sing God’s glory.
This is the destiny, the objective
for which we priests work in history.
There, my brother priests,
in everlasting glory
along with all of our people, our people glorified,
we shall feel the boundless satisfaction
of having worked with Christ...
to make humanity
God’s living temple,
the living image
of God’s Spirit
in eternity.
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