Many Are Called Quotes

“St. Paul explicitly presents Jesus as the new Adam—a first man who succeeds wherever his predecessor failed. Jesus succeeded as father, son, brother, warrior, teacher, mediator, spouse. In short, he succeeded as a priest; and in doing so he restored the natural priesthood to humanity. This has tremendous consequences for every Christian. For in baptism we have become a nation of priests. All of us have been called, in Christ, to do the work that Adam was made to do, but failed to do. Each of us is called to work as a priest who sanctifies the temporal order. Our altar is our desktop, our kitchen countertop, our laptop, our place in the assembly line, our diaper-changing table, our operating table. Our altar is the row we hoe. Through baptism, God has called us and empowered us to take the whole world and make it once again a sanctuary—and everything in it an offering. The priesthood of Adam has been restored in the New Adam, Jesus Christ, in whom we live and move and have our being. The faithful sanctify the world through the common priesthood—but the Church’s priests sanctify the faithful through the sacraments.”
― Scott Hahn, Many Are Called: Rediscovering the Glory of the Priesthood