The Priesthood of the New and Everlasting Covenant in the Catholic Church

Throughout the Liturgical Year, we often see that Jesus Christ is referred to as the Eternal High Priest. It is in the glowing light of this brilliant gem of Catholic Wisdom that we wish to present several precious pieces from the vast treasury of our glorious history as descendants of the disciples of Our Lord.

During His interrogation, as we learn from St. Leo the Great, "Caiphas, in order to excite their hatred against what was said, rent his garments, and thus deprived himself of the priestly dignity, by transgressing the precept; which, speaking of the high priest, says: He shall not uncover his head, and his garments he shall not rend." Lev. 21, 10

Further luminous rays are cast upon this pearl of contemplation by the humble Bede the Venerable, when he eloquently states: "By the high priest rending his garments he shows, that the Jewish priesthood, on account of their crimes, was now dissolved; whereas the tunic of Christ, by which the one true Catholic Church is prefigured, was seamless, and not to be divided." Amen.