PREZBITER, NAVJESTITELJ I SLAVITELJ KRISTOVA DJELA SPASENJA
PRESBYTER, PROCLAIMER AND CELEBRATOR OF CHRIST’S ACT OF SALVATION

Summary/Abstract: Based on prayers of consecration at the ordination of priests from the beginning of the Church to our days, the author studies the meaning of the threefold function of the ministry of presbyters in the Church: pastoral, proclaiming and consecrating. The pastoral service, which is also an important service, a presbyter can and ought to delegate to non-ordained members of his community. That is why the author pays special attention to the other two services: those of proclaiming and consecrating, for they are necessarily related to the Liturgy; where the irreplaceable role is the one of a presbyter as bishop’s co-worker. The author highlights the lively correlation between the word and the act: as the prophetic word in the Old Testament announced the salvation realized by Christ, thus in the Liturgy of the Church of today the word being announced finds its realization in the act of Liturgy, whereas the Liturgy itself is both realization and performance of salvation accomplished by Christ through the Easter mystery of his death and resurrection.

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