"This priesthood is based on and flows from Christ’s own priesthood. A properly ordained priest of the Church shares in a heightened and special way in the priesthood of Christ because he offers to God the same sacrifice that Jesus offered to God the Father. "
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I think you elevate your priests to a status that they do not deserve.
Kosta: I'm not sure but in your EO church don't your priests marry and have families?
Kosta: I'm not sure but in your EO church don't your priests marry and have families? Priests can be married, but not bishops. Celibacy (in the Latin Church, starting with the priest, and in the Eastern Church with the bishop) is a discipline and is neither theologically correct nor incorrect, althugh both churches value celibacy more than non-celibacy, and find suppoert for it in St. Paul's Epistles.
The Latin side sees in celibacy imitating Christ; the East considers celibacy a "natural" outgrowth of theosis.