A Retreat for Priests

By Ronald Knox “Shepherds of his own choice to guide you well and prudently”: This is the promise of the Lord through the Prophet Jeremiah; this is the promise of the priesthood. A priest is chosen by God himself, divinely elected a shepherd of souls, appointed an ambassador from heaven to earth, ordained another Christ. In these eighteen conferences, Monsignor Ronald Knox offers instruction, encouragement, and refreshment for the men who have accepted this vocation. Anchoring each meditation in the Old Testament, Knox uses the stories of Abraham, Jacob, Esther, and more, to throw the situations and needs of the spiritual life into sharp relief. Pairing these stories with ones from the New Testament, Knox underscores those admonitions and encouragements toward holy living, placed there by the Holy Spirit when he inspired the sacred authors to write as they did. “As God chose your soul, chose that it should exist, so he chose, before the foundation of the world, your priesthood; determi