The priesthood is not a means to gain power and achieve personal ambitions. This is the warning addressed this morning by Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for the ordination of 14 new priests in St. Peter. "The priesthood can never be a way - Ratzinger said during the homily - to achieve security in life or to obtain a social position. "" Those who aspire to the priesthood - he added - an increase of their personal prestige and his power at the root has misunderstood the meaning of this ministry. "" Who wants above all to achieve his own ambition - said the Pope - to achieve their success will always be a slave of himself and the public. To be considered, you must flatter; will say what they like people, must adjust to changing fashions and opinions, and so, you deprive it of the vital relationship with the truth, reducing to order tomorrow what will be praised today. "
The AMBITION IS JUST TO LOVE YOURSELF - The Pope, who appeared rather tense and tired, he added: "A priest who see their ministry in these terms, do not truly love God and others, only himself and, paradoxically, ends up losing himself. The priesthood is based on the courage to say yes to another will, in the awareness, to grow every day, that their compliance with the will of God, surrounded by this desire, not only will not be canceled our originality, but on the contrary, we enter deeper into the truth of our being and our ministry. "
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