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Finally a brave Archbishop has said it all. Priests must be committed in their priesthood and be true examples of greater unity and holiness in Christ. The church can only move forward if we have holy and faithful priests. Priests must ensure that their vows remain intact especially with all the detractions they encountered everyday.Priests can remain faithful by daily prayer life, kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament to pray in silent adoration, celebrating the Eucharist, reciting and meditating on the Rosary, faithfully doing works of charity and mercy, Bible reading and refection, encouraging others to do the right things and spending time with the poor, the marginalised and the lonely. In their sermons and homilies, they should be bold enough to reprimand Catholics who do not keep the Ten Commandments of God and who is not doing the right thing like morality and corruption. Priests much show good examples for others to emulate them.They shouldn't be spending too much time in rich and powerful people homes for dinners and let the rich monopolised them. Priests must be like Jesus who is fair and open to others. Welcome the stranger, the visitor, the homeless, the poor in material, the uneducated, the jobless into their midst and experience their loneliness and pain. Give them guidance and support. Visiting the sick in hospitals.They must be bold to speak the Truth and be brave to tell the Word of god and share it without picking here and there and not telling all. If some parishioners are not doing right, priests must advice them to change in a right way and not to lose their temper or shout at them...as it will only make these people to go elsewhere or stray away from the church. Priests must be simple in their living and make sacrifices for the salvation of sinners.They should encourage parishioners to be active in church to work together and to grow deeper in faith and to go out ot evangelise to others, to spread the Good News more concertedly. Priests must invoke the Holy Spirit for the church to move forward as more intense prayers are needed for the church to sustained and to grow.Priests must encourage more people to come and pray- in pilgrimage, in Novena, in Mass, in Formation, In Bible study, in parish activities. There must be constantly spirituality encountered in order all able to developed into more better disciples of Christ. Priests must be more zealous and better witness to the gospel for more people to follow.