This is what I see from where I sit.

Every time a priest suits up, prays as he or she does so, and goes out to celebrate the Mass, he or she is serving others.

Every time a priest responds prayerfully to a matter of concern instead of adding to people's upsets, he or she is serving others.

Every time a priest leaves his or her dinner to tend a dying stranger's family, he or she is serving others.

Every time a priest leaves his or her warm bed to respond to a family-in-crisis call, a suicide call, a please-help-me-I've-been-raped call, he or she is serving others.

Every time a priest prays with compassion for the family of a child who has died, he or she is serving others.

Every time a priest subjects his body to rigors beyond his own strength, so that he may go out in any weather to bring a people together in prayer and worship, he or she is serving others.

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He or she may also be serving another goal or organization. But the service to others is there, nonetheless.

~Susan