QUOTATION: The Priest

The priest is, like John the Baptist, purely a forerunner, a servant of the word. It is not he who matters, but the other.

--Pope Benedict XVI, “The Ministry and Life of Priests”,  Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith

QUOTATION: Confession

My daughter, just as you prepare in My presence, so also you make your confession before Me. The person of the priest is, for Me, only a screen. Never analyse what sort of a priest it is that I am making use of; open your soul in confession as you would to Me, and I will fill it with My light.

--Apparition of Jesus Christ to St. Faustina Kowalska