Reflections of Fr. J. Friedel

"The late great theologian Karl Rahner was once asked the question," when is a priest most like Christ?" His answer: "When he suffers." Perhaps this is the reason I am cherishing my priesthood a great deal today. I find it a tremendous gift. Imperfect as I am, I am grateful to love and be loved, and I still feel very strongly that I am doing what God needs me to do.

...And God keeps working his way deeper into my heart. What good grace, to stand alongside the awful!"