Abstract
The dichotomous nature of man is a prerequisite for his priestly vocation. The fact that man is at the same time a spiritual and material being shows his role as mediator between Creator and creation. His dichotomous constitution is the essential premise of his vocation to the world. He is taken from the general matter of the world, endowed with a living soul, and placed in the world as a leaven to transform it. The world cannot sanctify itself, because this process presupposes communion with the tripersonal God, and it is impersonal. But together with man, it can enter relationship with its Creator. It is man, therefore, who also transmits to it what he becomes through the sanctifying grace. Man is therefore by his very constitution the priest of creation. All that he does as an incarnate soul will also be passed on to the world. By ascending through his special relationship with the Creator to eternal life, he draws along with him the body and the material world to which he is bound, like a train.
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