Quid es tu?

In these desert days of not being a priest in community, I actually said out loud yesterday something about my being a lay woman. There is nothing inherently wrong in that; I have no intention of disparaging the faithful laity who have to endure clericalism in all its oppressive forms; after all, it is a different expression of saying that I am baptised like everyone else and baptism is the degré zéro from whence all ministry flows, but nonetheless, as one who was called to serve the people of God as a priest, it was an odd moment.

O Sacerdos, quid es tu?
Non est a te, quia e nihilo,
Non es ad te, quia mediator ad Deum,
Non es tibi, quia sponsus ecclesiæ,
Non es tui, quia servus omnium,
Non es tu, quia Dei minister,
Quid es ergo? Nihil et omnia,
O Sacerdos.