The Priestly Life Ronald Knox first published in 1936

first published in 1936

He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two youngest daughters

clarifies the theology that supports the volume as a whole—that the purpose and power of the priesthood is to lead souls into the joyful salvation won by Jesus Christ

the warmth of her embrace for the contemplative life and silent prayer

A prolific author

The Priestly Life Ronald Knox first published in 1936By Ronald Knox God has no need for anything, proclaims St. Paul in the midst of the Areopagus. God has no need for mankind: He creates men and women out of pure generosity. The priesthood, remarks Monsignor Ronald Knox, is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God could have done without [priests], but he preferred to have, once more, a kind of tool through which his action should express itself. Tools in his hand, that is what we priests were