The Priesthood - Friendship with Christ

Fr. Julian Green is the new Chaplain of Birmingham University, and is doing very well at preserving the integrity of the Catholic faith in what can often be an environment of indifferentism and secularism. Recently he received the Archbishop Vincent Nichols to celebrate Mass for us. Here is a picture of the occasion with Angela Joyce, the Chair of the Newman Society (CathSoc), and Sister Anna O'Connor, the Chaplaincy's trendy Nun.

Fr. Julian has now joined Fr. Richard Aladics in the fantastic new blog, Friends with Christ, and has just written a fantastic premier post which consists of his reflection on Pope Benedict's address to the priests of the Diocese of Rome in the Papal Basilica of St John Lateran shortly after his election as Pope. I really recommend a read of Fr. Julian's post; it is the kind of vision of being a Priest which is often lacking in today's Church, which is probably why there such a distinct lack of vocations. I do not envy Priests, in that they do an incredibly hard service and have so much to give account for, but it must be a wonderful vocation to live when the Mass is said with the sort of love and reverence which Fr. Julian speaks about.