O priest you are not a social worker....

.....or a political activist, or, indeed, a committee member.

Your task is to anoint the sick, hear the confessions of the healthy, offer the Sacrifice of the Mass and to save souls as a shepherd saves his flock:-

Prayer of St Norbert

O Priest, who are you?

You are not yourself  because you are God.

You are not of yourself because you are

 the servant and minister of Christ.

You are not your own because you

are the spouse of the Church.

You are not yourself because you are the

mediator between God and man.

You are not from yourself

because you are nothing.

What then are you?

Nothing and everything.

O Priest! Take care lest what was said

to Christ on the cross be said to you:

'He saved others, himself he cannot save'

A tip of a white biretta to GD