Ordained to Abide in Him

You have crossed the threshold. What follows is not another set of demands on a life already crowded with them. It is a path back to the hidden source of your priesthood — to the One who cherishes you before He sends you, and who desires your heart more than your output.

A Suggested Path

1. How You See God Determines Everything Begin with sight. Much of what appears to be a crisis of action is a crisis of vision.
2. The Saints God Sends Renewal has never come from programs. Gregory, Borromeo, Eudes, Vianney: priestly fatherhood given again, age after age.
3. Holiness The Church’s governing end — and the substitutes that quietly take its place.
4. Fatherhood Fathers, not leaders. Victim, Icon, and Servant: the hidden form of the priesthood.
5. The Family The parish reaps what the home sows. Every program must either serve the home or else it quietly takes its place — there is no third thing.
6. Abba: A Thirty-Three Day Retreat A thirty-three day return to the Father, for priest and parish together.
7. Causality What truly governs reveals what we truly seek. Seeing the inversion clearly.