On the feast of Ss Peter and Paul I celebrated the 20th anniversary of my ordination to the Sacred Priesthood. Not a huge milestone perhaps, but it feels like a significant one. A time not for self-congratulation but for a self-examination entirely consistent with the sentiment with which St Paul can say: “By the grace of God I am what I am and his grace to me has not been in vain.” That awareness of what I am retains its original dialectic of an ever-deepening appreciation of the dignity of the priesthood and the accompanying mystery that its grace is conferred on the weak and unworthy.