of the ministry of Jesus Christ in his Church.”1 Besides displaying the Church’s response the priest also enables it, for by his professional training and concentration of labour he “gets things done”. And besides displaying and enabling he also involves the whole Church in his own activity. When he visits a sick person, for instance, it is not only the visit of a kind Christian; it is the Church visiting. Similarly the priest can be the Church praying, the Church caring for the distressed, the Church