From Trinidad-
Members of the clergy were reminded on Saturday that their lives should be good examples, if they wanted their congregation and the population to become true people of God.
The reminder came from Anglican Bishop Calvin Bess as he delivered the sermon at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Pointe-a-Pierre, to mark the 50th year of the ordination to the priesthood of retired Bishop Rawle Ernest Douglin.
Bess in his sermon said: ’Priests are called to serve by example, to lead the people of God and they are reminded that they should be examples in every community.’
Best said the church expects its priests to be examples of Christ.
’You were called upon to become members of the clergy by virtue of ordination, and once a priest you will always be a priest, and your life should be what God expects,’ said Bess.
Bess, who along with a number of other priests presided over an ecumenical service, said the national community expects priests to be leaders in their own community, setting proper standards for the population to follow.
Speaking about the 50-year service to the clergy given by Douglin, he said: ’Priesthood belongs to God and in His wisdom he has given us Rev Douglin as the perfect example of what a priest should be.’
He said during Douglin’s life in the priesthood he had encountered many problems and challenges but ’by the Grace of God he prevailed and has survived the priesthood for so many years’.
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