Catholic Priesthood

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    “Lord, have mercy on us.
    [Kyrie, eleison.]”
    —Missal, The. The Ordinary of the Mass.

    Missal is book of prayers and rites used to celebrate the Roman Catholic mass during the year.

    “The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognised as love at all.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)