A Priest, a Prophet, and a King Walk Into a Bar

You’ve probably heard the phrase “priest, prophet, and king” a hundred times. The surprise is how concrete it becomes once you connect it to Pentecost, the Church’s calendar, and what you actually bring to Mass every week. Patrick Mason sits down with Father Matthew Keller of Sigar Cathedral to talk about Ordinary Time (not “ordinary” as in plain, but ordinal as in numbered) and why the season after Pentecost is meant to feel like the Church stepping into the world with the Holy Spirit.

We dig into the Catholic teaching that every baptised Christian shares in Christ’s threefold office. Priesthood shows up when we unite our work, joys, and sufferings to Jesus’ sacrifice, especially at the offertory, when the priest prays for “my sacrifice and yours.” Prophecy turns out to be less about predicting the future and more about making God’s action visible right now through teaching, encouragement, correction, and clear witness that raises honest questions. Kingship becomes practical leadership ordered toward peace: serving, providing, setting wise boundaries, and reflecting God’s fatherly care in the home and in the Church.

Along the way, we explore how these “threes” keep pointing back to the Holy Trinity, why bishops carry real spiritual responsibility for their dioceses, and how the liturgy itself quietly teaches trinitarian reality. If you want a deeper, more grounded way to live your baptismal mission as a missionary disciple, this conversation will give you language and next steps. Subscribe to Christerocast, share this with a friend, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway.

Transcript

A Prophet By Daily Witness

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How am I a prophet?

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Yeah. But kind of what you're saying is just by living your Christian life, by witnessing.

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If you live united with Christ, you will, you will, uh the yeah, God will exercise prophecy through your life.

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Yeah.

Welcome, Prayer, Pentecost Context

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Welcome to another show of Christerocast. I'm your host, Patrick Mason, and with me today is Father Matthew Keller of Sigar Cathedral. Thanks for being with us, Father. Good to see you, Patrick. Uh, would you mind starting us off with a prayer today?

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Certainly. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. Oh, God, we have taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit. Grant that in the same spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Amen.

Why Pentecost Once Had A Season

SPEAKER_01 1:05

Awesome. Thank you, Father. It's appropriate for the week since we just celebrated Pentecost.

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Yeah.

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Um there's not like an octave of Pentecost or anything, is it?

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Well, you're opening a big can of worms. So formerly in the in the old calendar, um there was uh Pentecost tide, and so it was treated, you know, in the same way. So there's a kind of an octave uh right, uh same as Easter, Christmas. Um and then the season between uh Pentecost and the beginning of Advent um was uh was called we just called it the the weeks after Pentecost, right? So you'd have uh the way that we have you know ordinary time now, it would be you know, like this would come up be the first week after Pentecost, second week after Pentecost. And it used to be designated that way. And so it was always a reference back to Pentecost, even though it wasn't really exactly the season of Pentecost. Right it it in in many ways it was marked by the character of Pentecost because that's what began. Uh right, and so it's the idea is also, you know, sort of like the church going out into the world, and then you know, yes, uh, we come back to you know, focusing on different aspects of the the life of our Lord with Advent again.

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So yeah, I guess that's appropriate. The the regular time of the church would be the time of the Holy Spirit. Sure.

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Yeah. So um, yeah, and it was, you know, the whole uh process of revision of the calendar and and the liturgy is where all that got uh uh affected. But so in some ways, um it's unavoidable because the time after Pentecost, we you know, we have Trinity Sunday coming up and then Corpus Christi. And so the whole Trinity uh uh you know gets celebrated with uh but as a collective, right? Pentecost, the Holy Spirit we focus on, uh Corpus Christi, and then of course the whole uh you know the uh the Holy Trinity Sunday as well. And every Sunday is kind of a Sunday of God the Father, right? The day in which we celebrate the Lord's Day, yeah. The day or or yeah, I mean, and we speak of our Lord Jesus, of course, there as well, but we think of Sundays as a day um in which God the Father is celebrated. So every Sunday is that in a in effect.

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No,

What Ordinary Time Really Means

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that makes a lot of sense. So how do we get the name ordin if you know ordinary? Sure.

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So it's just ordinal. This that's not uh that's really reflective of the English um because it's just uh the the Sundays throughout the year is how it it is what they're actually called.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Like ordinal numbers.

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Ordinal, yeah, not ordinary plane is not the is ordinal.

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Yeah, so that's why they're numbered, right? So yeah, that makes sense. So I guess we're entering the kind of the regular time of the church. Um, but during that time, even though we're not celebrating anything specific, we're all still called to be missionary disciples, to be um out there preaching the gospel. And the topic that we were gonna go over was that of how we're called to be priest, prophet, and king. Sure. I think we've all heard that a lot, and not necessarily I mean, we have some aspect of what that means, but I thought maybe we could go into that a little bit today.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

That's it's great. And it it's fitting uh with Holy Trinity Sunday coming because right um so many things in in the Catholic faith, right, by by their nature unfold in these little triplets, right? Of uh, and it that's not just uh you know like a clever way of remembering something or whatever. It's because that's uh the nature, right? The the central mystery of the Christian faith is the Holy Trinity, right? God in Himself. And so

Priest, Prophet, King And The Trinity

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no uh it's no great surprise then that things unfold in in things that can refer to the Trinity. And so um, as you mentioned, priest, prophet, and king. So those are the triple munrah um that our our Lord had, right? Jesus Christ, you know, in this world was the high priest, right? Uh and he was uh you know fulfilling all the Old Testament uh figures and everything of priesthood. He you know sums it up in himself and then he becomes the great high priest of uh of the new covenant. And so we have a share in that through our baptism, right? Every single person who's baptized, um, if you're a baptized Christian, you have a share in the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Uh there and we call that the baptismal priesthood, uh baptismal share in the priesthood. There's also uh a sacramental share of you know holy orders, um, which participates in in the in the priesthood uh in a in a distinct way from from the baptismal priesthood, but every Christian has that. And that's why St. Uh Saint Peter tells us that we can offer spiritual sacrifices that are pleasing to God because we have a share in the priesthood, every single Christian. And then so that's uh the priesthood of our Lord, and he did that ultimately on the cross, right? He offered the perfect sacrifice, and so he fulfilled the priesthood and and sums it up in himself. So priest prophet, uh, our Lord uh fulfilled that by his teaching, right? Uh that's what prophets do. They they teach and admonish and exhort and all of that, and prophesy in in the sense also of uh you know of even laying out you know the future uh of the church uh until that until he comes again in glory and what lies ahead. So prophet and then king, right? Our Lord, everything is subject to his rule, right? He's the king of kings, uh, lord of lords, every knee will bend to him. And so uh he completely uh fulfills that. It was even uh acknowledged in him uh sort of uh unintentionally, right, by those who crucified him, right? They put the title over his head, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, uh, which he fulfilled, of course, uh as a son of David. Um he was rightly the king of Israel, but not only of Israel, but of the whole universe. And so our participation in that is a participation in the life

Baptismal Priesthood And The Offertory

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of the Trinity.

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Yeah.

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And so every Christian um has, you know, we're we're all called to uh in in our priesthood to offer sacrifices that are pleasing to God by um fulfilling our duties, right? Offering, putting them in union with Christ, um, and you know, the the way that we offer things up uh constantly, right? Our sufferings, our prayers, our works, our joys, our sufferings, all of that um is offered to the Father through Jesus Christ. That's our job at Mass, actually, is to bring those things that we want to intercede for, things that we want to offer God, and we join them to the sacrifice of the mass. I always tell people, you know, don't show up to mass empty-handed or unprepared, right? You have uh things that you're going through, your sicknesses and your family difficulties and your, you know, if you have unemployment, whatever it is that you that you're struggling with, personal uh, you know, afflictions or uh uh difficulties, um, right, because you have that share of the priesthood, you offer that, you know, at mass. Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours will be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Yeah, that's really good. That's um we you know, we met, we went through Father Mitchell's book, Praying the Mass and Lent. Uh-huh. And um I think the thing that stuck with me the most was actually that section on the offery. Because I think even you know, as a lifelong Catholic, that's something I never did was, oh yeah, it's not just, oh, here, bring up these gifts, let the priest offer them up. It's like, what are you bringing to the altar? What are you bringing to the table? That's right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

My sacrifice and yours. Yeah. Right. There's uh the way the priest voices it for the church. So it's uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

I was I was talking to my wife this morning, actually, and we were and she's going through a new book on Theresa Lasso, and uh there was something along these lines of being thankful for everything that God has done for you, including your suffering, your pain, your persecutions, because those were all part of God's will for you. And if you and if you're doing our Father, thy will be done, or like Mary's fiat, like do unto me according to thy word, that that actually is something to be thankful for. So when you offer something up, it's not just a matter of like, oh, please remove me from this suffering, but oh, thank you, Lord, for these sufferings you've given me.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Yeah, and and accept this gift of or this offering of my suffering, right? Not just take it away, but accept it. And if I have to continue to carry it, right, I trust that you'll help me carry it. Um if but like Jesus, we can ask, right, Father, if it's if it's possible, right? You know, take this uh away. But if not, your will be done, not mine. That's how our Lord prayed, right?

SPEAKER_01 9:59

It's not very hopeful though, when his own son asks him and he and he doesn't take it away. Well, it gives us that that reality check, right?

SPEAKER_02 10:07

That no, Jesus, and Jesus did that for our sake, yeah, not for his own. Um, so that we would understand that um, like even the son of God, right, um and especially the son of God, right, um, came into this world uh to suffer and die for our salvation. And so if we're going to you know claim the name of Christian, right? Um we do there's no uh Christians without crosses, right? That's not that there's no such thing as that. Yeah. And uh our Lord promised us, in this world you will have trouble. Take up your cross and follow me. All those things he said to let us know, right? If they hated me, they're gonna hate you, all those things our Lord did to so that we wouldn't get discouraged, right? That we say, you know, look, when am I more in union with Jesus than when I'm suffering?

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Yeah.

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Right. Right. I where do we see Jesus just you know lounging around and and having a good old time, uh, you know, with nothing else on his on his mind, right? Uh it's not that he didn't enjoy life, it's just that that's he's I came to serve and not to be served, right? And so um that's our you know, our lot in life as Christians is to identify with Jesus Christ. And so those things we saw our Lord doing are things that are good, should manifest in our own lives, right? Uh including the great love, right, of laying down life. But um, of course, recognizing and having great gratitude. We also see our Lord rejoicing in the scriptures, right? Yeah. Uh Jesus at times it says he was filled with the Holy Spirit, rejoiced uh uh in the things, you know, and and praised God uh for the for his many uh good things, right? Uh and so we also have to be people who recognize God's action in the world, um, and which sometimes will cause us to to suffer if our union, if we're in union with him, uh we're

Suffering, Gratitude, And The Cross

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gonna be conformed to him.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

So this is this is all really great. So I think it's very it's very uh practical and specific too, because it's not just be a priest, but be a priest by offering things to God.

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By offering, yeah. By offering. And then that's but also in giving thanks. Like the Mass is a sacrifice of thanksgiving, right? Eucharist means thanksgiving. And so we also, in the midst of our uh, you know, of all those things, we recognize our sufferings, yes, but we have to have gratitude, right, and rejoicing and give thanks to God, right, for the gift of life, because we understand that lit life is eternal, right? This is a little preparation phase we're going through right now for eternal life, right? And if we can really just really get it through our minds, right, to see things from heaven, the standpoint of heaven, right, that we will have joy and glory and you know, all of that forever without suffering that lies ahead. Instead of trying to hoard a little bit of you know of this life that has no suffering uh in the here and now, but ends, right? What good is that? Uh rather, if we can embrace those things, you know, the whole of life, the good, the bad, you know, all of it together, um uh accept all of it, praise God for all of it, then he takes away uh right, he will wipe away all the tears, and uh then we're with him forever in glory for all eternity where there's no possibility of ever suffering again, right? And the more glory, the more we embrace that in this life, right, the higher uh our glory in heaven, uh, because the more Christ-like we are, the the more deeply we embrace everything that God sends our way and and thanking him for everything that comes our way.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

So that yeah, that's really interesting. Um I was thinking of another uh conversation. I can't remember if it was Father Father Josh or Father or Father Brown that we were talking about, probably both of them. We were talking about the end of the mass is you know, it messes it is finished, but and then go forth basically. And and the idea being is that the mass is the beginning of your your daily worship of God. And now that you're miss you. Yeah, and what you're talking about now actually seems

Worship Beyond Mass Using ACTS

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to fit really well with that. Uh imagine our faith fitting fitting well with the with itself. Um but that the same kinds of worship that we do in mass, we can do every day in our on our priesthood. And I think, and correct me if I'm wrong about this, but are there four primary modes of worship, like adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, and supplication?

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Sure, yeah. And so those the you know, the mass is a perfect prayer, so it's gonna have it's gonna have all you know every aspect of of worship, right? And so um that is true, and and we can look to apply those in our life. Um, but back to the the triple murder, the the you know, prophecy, um, our our participation in the prophecy of Christ um also is I I think also brings in the Holy Spirit a bit more, right? Because we think of prophecy as a gift of the Holy Spirit, right? Yeah. Um you know, sort of a a um a charismatic gift of the Holy Spirit, a a special gift of the Holy Spirit. Um and but that role of prophecy means teaching, first of all, right? But also correcting,

Prophecy As Teaching And Correction

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uh something a prophet does, um, you know, admonishing, um, but encouraging, right? Uh, and demonstrating uh the way the faith if you think about what uh the prophets did in the old testament, um, they would do these symbolic actions and people would say, Well, what does that mean? And then he would then he would teach them, right, and and admonish them and correct them. And so that's something about our own lives, right? So if we're living out this role of uh sharing in the in the prophetic mission of Christ, then that's gonna be right our uh the way that we uh live out our faith in the world that's you know that's visible to others. And so you know it should bring inquiry. What what does it mean that you have you know eight children, right? Yeah. That's a prophetic action.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Interesting.

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And so people are, you know, just like you know, they saw one of the prophets doing something uh you know strange, carrying around, you know, sticks that were tied together and you know, and they're you know, writing on them, and people wonder like, what does this mean? What does this action of yours mean? Well, you know, when you do prophetic things, like you know, embrace uh your call to holy matrimony and being generous in your uh right in your embrace of uh openness to life, and people see see that, right? It's it does a few things, it bothers their conscience, um it's but it it it inspires them, it strikes their curiosity. Um, some people are in awe of that, and they're like, I I don't know how you can do that.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Yeah, we get that a lot.

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As as if it's just through your effort, right? As if God isn't blessing you so abundantly, right? Right. Uh and giving you honestly a charism of prophecy. Interesting. Right? So that's that's part of why you're equipped for that, right? You you have holy matrimony, yes, and but if you're living it out in a prophetic way, um, it's going to call attention to to the church and to Christ. Like, right? I mean, you guys can't go in public without it affecting somebody. Right. Right. Simply because God has blessed you with that gift. Not everybody can have that many children. Um, you know, you there some people, you know, for different reasons, but even physically, some people cannot, even if they willed them. So it's you know, but the generosity of accepting uh, you know, uh a beautiful big family like that from God, um does it it just doing that has the uh does its own work, right? It it attracts people, it brings people to to wonder, to to reflect, as I said, some maybe to repent, right? To say, wow, okay, um, I'm not being as generous here as I could be. So that's the you know the prophetic um role uh participating in the in the prophetic uh role of Christ as well, yeah. Teaching them, right? Teaching your children and raising them up, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Yeah, what what strikes me really about that is I guess the very nature, because you always think of prophecy as foretelling the future. Yeah. But the very nature of prophecy as it relates to God changed from the old testament to the new. Like basically all the way up until the baptism in the Jordan, the prophets were looking forward to something. Now the prophets are looking to the thing that is here. The kingdom of God is at hand.

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John the Baptist, greatest of all the Old Testament, right? Jesus says, no great, no prophet greater than John the Baptist. And his job was to say, what's happening now? Behold the Lamb of God, right? Uh and you're exactly right. He inaugurated the kingdom of God. And so calling it attention to something you know that God is doing in the present, right? Um, but prophecy, yeah, what God did in the past, what he's doing and what he will do in the future, all of it. What he's doing now is a big part of it, right? Right. But even let me just uh a little analogy that popped in my head there when you were talking about uh foretelling the future. Think about this though, when our pastor

Prophetic Witness Through Family Life

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at the cathedral, Father Brown, um, is contemplating, well, should we expand the school or not? And then he looks at you know at some of the families that are coming our way. Right. And they have, you know, seven, seven, eight, nine children. Yes, we should. So do you see how that prophetic action is helping uh unfold what will happen in the future in our parish?

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We will have we have the children for a larger school.

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Yeah, and and all that, right? So do you see how even that prophetic action uh supplies some prophetic information about what the future holds?

SPEAKER_01 20:21

Yeah, no, that's right. Yeah. And I guess it provides guidance.

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The prophets provide guidance to people and so we can to the clergy and so forth, right?

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Yeah, yeah. No, that's really interesting. I mean, uh again, these are all great because I never really know how I am a prophet.

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Yeah.

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But kind of what you're saying is just by living your Christian life, by witnessing.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

If you live united with Christ, you will, you will, uh the yeah, God will exercise prophecy through your life. Yeah, uh, if you're open to it. And then kingship, uh the you know, the third uh munrah there is that office of our Lord um is you know governing, ruling, right? And so you have that uh, especially in your own household, right? Um Yeah, I could definitely see it as like the head of the household. All of that you have to provide, um, and so right, but you think of the things that a king does, he you know not always a wise king, sometimes a dictator, too. But um, but um you know, providing for his subjects, right? Yeah, and and creating, you know, peace, right? Obtaining and and holding peace. And so all the things that that you know a king does in his kingdom, you know, you you have uh you know your family is the place where that plays out, right? Right. And you're looking for wisdom and wise counsel from the queen of your household. Yeah.

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Who sometimes actually rules.

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That's right. In places, yeah. So right, but together, right? That um and making God present there, right? Um and the the thing that your children learn from your heading of the family is Is that you are subject to somebody else, right? You're not a you joke about uh being a dictator. Um, no, uh a king is somebody who um reflects the reign of God on earth, right? So you're you're just like fatherhood is something that God has in its fullness, right? But you you have a share in that, right? All fatherhood uh derives from God, but you get to exercise fatherhood, right? Uh kingship as well. Uh all the you know the attributes of God that are um you know become present in our life when we're united to and we're living in accord with his will, they're gonna manifest. And so you uh right, that uh that kingly uh stature, right, of being able to set rules and and yeah, regulations to bring about peace, preserve and promote peace and well-being and all that stuff in your home, uh is your participation as a you know, as a as a layman, as a f husband and a father. Um but you know, and then as as a priest, right? Our bishop is uh especially the the symbol of you know the kingship of God. Um he's you know his his cathedra, although it it's not supposed to reflect um you know the opulence of royalty or something, it does reflect the the

Kingship As Fatherhood And Peace

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authority, right? Right of of his uh of his role as uh in in you know in directing, teaching, instructing, and and governing our diocese, right? And then we priests derive from that because he ordains us and sends us out to extend his his uh you know apostolic mandate to to the rest of the diocese. And so we participate in that, right, when uh when we stand in that role as well.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

I just had a really interesting conversation with one of our Protestant brothers that I'm working with on this. Uh, you know, we're doing the Catholic Education Fund, it's a tax credit rights scholarships to Catholic kids. And uh my my cohort from our partner organization is is uh very kind of fundamentalist, uh uh Christian Protestant. And he was we were having a lot of interactions with bishops, and I was trying to explain to him um, you know, kind of how how the how the the church sees the bishop. And one of the things I explained to him is that um the reason we go to the bishops first out of respect before we do something in our diocese is because uh and I told him about the little the little hat that they wear, the zu is a zucchetto even on a bishop, is that that actually symbolizes their princeship, right, of the of the king of kings, and that they're they are responsible, and the church sees them as responsible for all the souls within their geographical region that they they still rule over. Even though we're in a democracy, they in a lot of ways have actual kingship over their their diocese.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

Yeah, yeah. Yes, and yeah, exactly that. And yeah, that they have um a responsibility, but they also manifest God's presence to us as well, right? His care for us. Um back oh yeah, go ahead I was gonna say one more thing about uh kingship and the f and the God the Father. So as I said, sort of the priesthood is easy, easy to identify with Christ because of his sacrifice, and then the gift uh prophecy, right? Uh we can it's easy, even though Christ fulfilled it um fully, um uh we can easily see the Holy Spirit represented there, right, because of the the gift of uh prophecy as a special charism, and then a kingship of God the Father, even though Jesus is King of Kings, yes, but sitting on the throne in heaven, right? Jesus at the right hand of the Father, uh, who represents that uh kingship. Uh and so priest, prophet, and king sort of pulls in the Trinity, right? So I like that for this a theme for this right ahead of Trinity Sunday. But one thing I wanted to uh mention that in the liturgy, um uh, and we spoke about uh the older calendar, the older form of the the mass, um, it was very easy to see the trinitarian aspect of it because uh when you had the at a solemn mass, you had the priest and the deacon and the subdeacon, so you had three ministers, right? Very easy to uh to conjure the notion the notion of uh of the of a trinitarian form of worship again. Um but uh John Paul II, I believe it might have been Benedict by Pope Benedict, but I think it might have been Saint John Paul II who uh said that in the in the liturgy the bishop seated at his cathedral represents God the Father. And I I hadn't really uh clearly thought of because ordinarily we don't do things that represent God the Father, right? We do things that In personum Christmas we have not you know we have Christ present, we don't even have to point at symbols, we have him present in the Eucharist. Um but with Pentecost, we went through all the symbols of the Holy Spirit, right? So the water and

Bishops, Authority, And God’s Care

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the fire, tongues of fire, and and you know, the the cloud, uh and all so so many things that are symbols of the Holy Spirit. But in art, we hardly depict uh God the Father in any way, right? Once in a while, maybe the hand of blessing, or but it's always symbolic, right? The Trinity, we have a you know, the triangle or something, the interlocked uh loops for the Trinity. But God the Father, we don't really represent him. In art, some older forms of art, they'll draw the three persons of the Trinity and they all look like or you have Michelangelo's like touching, like occasionally you'll have art, but but in our liturgical Yeah, and but uh and I would say in in modern times, especially, I mean, you're not gonna see stained glass window that represents you know God the Father. You just don't see it now. Um so liturgically, um it's interesting that we do have something even now in the liturgy that represents God the Father, which is the mass in which the bishop is there seated uh in at his cathedra, representing the authority that God has established on this earth, right, through first of all, you know, the Holy Father, but all the bishops in union with him, uh one of which is our bishop, that reserve reserve received rather and continue to receive and and carry out the apostolic mandate that Jesus Christ gave them, right? Go to the ends of the world, teach everything that I that I taught, baptize, right? So he all the the right so he's teaching them to telling them to you know to to go and and baptize and and teach all the things that uh that he declares. So that's you know, that mandate is personified, right, in in

Trinity Signs In Liturgy And Ministry

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the successors to the apostles, right? Or bishops, and so it's uh uh something that we should behold, it shouldn't go to their head, right? They're servants of the of the the gospel, not uh not recipient. Jesus, I came to serve, not to be served. Um but there's an awesome an awe and an awesomeness about that, right? That uh that very thing Jesus promised um and commanded is playing out right in front of us, right, all to this day and will to the end of time.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

Well, and uh everything that you've said, Father, maybe we could just close on this and you can give us a blessing. Um you know, you s you started talking about how every there's so much that works in terms of threes in creation and especially in the Catholic Church and in ourselves. And I was just thinking as you were saying all that about how we're created in the image and likeness of God, and there's always new ways to unpack that. And this this was one of those ways is to see that like, no, even within our ourselves and our own mission and our own existence, we we reflect the image of God, the Trinity, yeah, in in our everyday lives. Yes. So I thought I think that's great, Father. I think this has really been helpful, and and I think if you wouldn't mind maybe closing us out with a blessing.

Blessing, Subscribe, And Closing

SPEAKER_02 30:04

Certainly. So the Lord be with you, and with your spirit. May the God of peace make you perfect in holiness, may He preserve you whole and entire spirit, soul, and body. Irreproachable is the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. May Almighty God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Amen. Thank you, Father. You're welcome. And if you uh enjoyed this video, please consider liking and subscribing. It really helps us uh reach a greater audience, and we'll see you next time.

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