Intentional Presbyterates: Claiming Our Common Sense of Purpose as Diocesan Priests

This small book was one of the first to attempt to collect in one place all of what the church has to say about the radical communitarian dimension of ordained ministry, reflect on it and offer practical suggestion for teaching it in seminaries and sharing it with priests already in ministry.

Father J. Ronald Knott is a priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky. Ordained May 16, 1970, he has served as a home missionary, college teacher, campus minister, pastor, cathedral rector, traveling evangelist, homiletics instructor and archdiocesan vocations director. He is presently Director of the Institute for Priests and Presbyterates at Saint Meinrad School of Theology; a columnist for his diocesan newspaper, The Record; and a part-time campus minister at Bellarmine University in Louisville. Father Knott has had articles published in America, Church, Seminary Journal, Deacon Digest, and The Pastoral Review. He has given major addresses at national conventions on church renovation, homiletics, presbyteral unity and vocations. He has presented more than 75 parish missions and retreats and has led more than 100 presbyteral convocations around the country and abroad. Father Knott holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana and a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Presbyterian Seminary in Chicago. He is author of three collections of homilies: An Encouraging Word, One Heart at a Time and Sunday Nights. He is co-author of Religious Communities in the Archdiocese of Louisville as well as author of Diocesan Priests in the Archdiocese of Louisville; For the Record: Encouraging Words for Ordinary Catholics, Volumes I through X; Intentional Presbyterates; From Seminarian to Diocesan Priest; The Spiritual Leadership of a Parish Priest; Intentional Presbyterates: The Workbook and A Bishop and His Priests Together. Three of his books for clergy are available in Spanish and one in Swahili.