I learn by arguing, so I encourage Huber to post this as an "ecumenical" thread.
The opening paragraph, especially the one I cited, grokked it for me. That is indeed a significant difference in understanding of the Liturgy and therefore priesthood. I wasn't aware of this.
“That is indeed a significant difference in understanding of the Liturgy and therefore priesthood.”
Maybe not so different after all. As the priest offering the sacrifice to God the priest is acting, at some removal, in the role of Christ as the High Priest. Remember that in Orthodoxy, the Liturgy is very, very much a Christianized Temple ceremony and so in that context the role of the priest is indeed somewhat different from the common perceptions in the Latin Church and yet if he is looked at as an Icon of Christ the Hogh Priest, not so different. And the invocation of the HS to effect the change in the bread and the wine is very consistent with Christ’s own promises about sending the HS, etc.
Huber...start a thread!