THE DICHOTOMOUS NATURE OF MAN, PREMISE OF HIS PRIESTLY VOCATION
THE DICHOTOMOUS NATURE OF MAN, PREMISE OF HIS PRIESTLY VOCATION

Summary/Abstract: The dichotomous nature of man is a prerequisite for his priestly vocation. The factthat man is at the same time a spiritual and material being shows his role asmediator between Creator and creation. His dichotomous constitution is theessential premise of his vocation to the world. He is taken from the general matter ofthe world, endowed with a living soul, and placed in the world as a leaven totransform it. The world cannot sanctify itself, because this process presupposescommunion with the tripersonal God, and it is impersonal. But together with man, itcan enter relationship with its Creator. It is man, therefore, who also transmits to itwhat he becomes through the sanctifying grace. Man is therefore by his veryconstitution the priest of creation. All that he does as an incarnate soul will also bepassed on to the world. By ascending through his special relationship with theCreator to eternal life, he draws along with him the body and the material world towhich he is bound, like a train.

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