Author: Fulton J Sheen
Paperback, 5.5 X 8.25 inches, 350 pages.

Book Notesbr>'A priest is mysterious, because he lives in two worlds. He is at his best when he leads 'a double life,' at once both human and divine.'
In this penetrating book written some five years before his death, Sheen explores this duality inherent in the vocation of the modern-day priest: his need, like that of Christ, to feel the holiness of God that binds him to the Father; and at the same time his need to become a victim, like Christ, for the world's sins, assuming its guilt and poverty in union with the Lord...
- From the back cover.

Author Notes

Archbishop Fulton J Sheen (1895 -1979) Role model and ideal of many priests, the Servant of God, established himself long ago as the foremost spokesman for the Catholic Church in America and one of its most prolific writers. The last few years of his life were dedicated to preaching retreats to priests and promoting the daily Holy Hour of adoration as the key to their own sanctification and effectiveness in the priesthood. This work is a veritable treasure of wisdom and insight into the nature and practice of the priesthood as also exemplified in the life of the author himself, whose cause for canonization has been introduced in Rome.