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The Feast of Christ the Priest, also known as the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Eternal High Priest, is a Roman Catholic moveable liturgical feast celebrated annually on the first Thursday after Pentecost. Approval for this feast was first granted by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 1987.
The Eternal Priesthood also emphasises the wider role of priests as members of communities. The condition of a priest living alone, Manning argues, is "abnormal [and] unecclesiastical", [ 6 ] and priests must play an active part in society, avoiding the tendency to become "mere Mass priests and hucksters of sacraments ".
In Catholic theology, a priest is In persona Christi because, in the sacraments he administers, it is God and Christ who acts through the instrumentality of the priest. An extended term, In persona Christi capitis , “in the person of Christ the head,” was introduced by the bishops of the Vatican Council II in the Decree on the Ministry and ...
The term high priest is not used in the Hebrew scriptures from the time of Joshua until the reign of Joash. [14] Both Zadok and Abiathar functioned in tandem as priests at the time of David's hasty exit from Jerusalem. When David first set up his cabinet, Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, were named as priests. [15]
According to midrash, just as the priestly covenant with Aaron is considered eternal, so to is the covenant with the firstborns eternal. [9] Similarly, Leviticus Rabbah states that the firstborn retain some sanctity forever, despite the golden calf sin. [53] According to Etz Yosef, this sanctity refers to the requirement that they be redeemed. [53]
Eusebius worked out this threefold classification, writing: "And we have been told also that certain of the prophets themselves became, by the act of anointing, Christs in type, so that all these have reference to the true Christ, the divinely inspired and heavenly Word, who is the only high priest of all, and the only King of every creature, and the Father’s only supreme prophet of prophets."
High-status brides were veiled in the same saffron-yellow flammeum as the Flamenica Dialis, priestess of Jupiter and wife to his high priest. Vestals wore a white, purple-bordered suffibulum (veil) when travelling outdoors, performing public rites or offering sacrifices. Respectable matrons were also expected to wear veils in public.
The seal of Azaryah was made before he became high priest because his function is not mentioned on it. The seal of Hanan and the bulla of Azaryah, two sons of the high priest Hilkiah, represent testimonies of the last years of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple of Jerusalem, before its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586.