Footnotes

[2] Ps 15:5

[3] Cor 4:1

[4] 1 Pet 2:9-10

[5] Eph 1:3-4

[6] cf Rom 13:12

[7] St Catherine of Sienna, Dialogues, Ch 116, cf Ps 104:15

[8] Second Vatican Council, Constitution, Sacrosanctum Concilium, 7; cf Council of Trent, Doctrine on the Sacrifice of the Mass, ch 2

[9] St Gregory the Great, Dialogue, 4, 59

[10] I Cor 4:7

[11] Second Vatican Council, Decree, Presbyterorum ordinis, 2

[12] Council of Trent, Doctrine on the Sacrament of Order, ch 1, Dz-Sch 1764 (957)

[13] Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution, Lumen gentium, 10

[14] cf Second Vatican Council, Decree, Presbyterorum ordinis, 6

[15] cf ibid, Decree, Presbyterorum ordinis, 13

[16] ibid

[17] Council of Trent, Doctrine on the most holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Dz-Sch 1743 (940)

[18] Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution, Lumen gentiun, 50

[19] St Thomas, S. Th. Supl q36 a2 ad1

[20] Deut 6:13; Matt 4:10

[21] cf Col 1:24