José Granados, in „Priesthood: A Sacrament of the Father”, begins with the human experience of fatherhood, which, if taken in all its breadth, changes our vision of the human person: „Fatherhood implies man’s generous openness to another «I» who, while belonging to the father’s existence..., is different from him with an irreducible novelty” The mystery of human fatherhood is transformed in Jesus Christ: „By identifying fatherhood with the surrender of his own life, Christ... breaks definitively the link that ties fatherhood with mortality, that is, he assures a communication of life able to overcome the threshold of death by bestowing the new gift of the Spirit” The sacrament of priesthood, by identifying the priest with Christ the head, allows the priest to participate in Christ’s communication of divine life. Priests are called to make visible the countenance of the divine father, the hidden source of all love.
