The Contemporary Challenge of Priestly Life: A Meditation on the Paschal Paradox

It is the paschal paradox of finding new life in the midst of death that informs the meditations in this book. The author explores the challenge and delight of priestly ministry in the face of its present numerical diminishment and offers a framework by which priests might listen more deeply to their experience, so discovering Spirit-filled possibilities for new life. In this way, fear or despair may give way to the discovery of ever more profound faith and hope and to renewed love for the vocation of the priest.

Fr David Ranson is a priest of the Diocese of Broken Bay and a senior lecturer at the Sydney College of Divinity. Within the College, he teaches in spirituality at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, where he is also Academic Secretary. David is regularly invited to speak on issues of contemporary spirituality and pastoral formation throughout Australia and New Zealand, and has written extensively in these areas.