When a priest celebrates the sacraments, he is practicing his role as what?

Question

Catholic priests.

Answer 1

A celebrant offering the "sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving" in the name of the congregation or community.

Answer 2

A priest ministers the sacraments, but a sacrament itself is an action of God, not a work of the priest. No man has the inate power to forgive sins; yet Christ clearly gave His first priests the power to minister HIS forgiveness, when he told them, "whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven them". Likewise, no mere man has the inate power to change bread and wine into the body and blood of the Risen Savior. But Christ gave priests that power when He personally celebrated the first Mass, and then commanded those present, "Do THIS in remembrance of Me". Also, no mere man has the inate power to fill a person with grace, and to make them a child of God, yet Jesus gave priests that very power when He commanded them, "make disciples of all peoples, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit". Of course, Protestants cannot really appreciate this since their tradition has reduced the saving power of the Holy Sacrament of Baptism to a mere symbolic gesture. But the sacraments as understood by the early Church and by every Christian for the next 1,500 years, are works of God by which He infuses the recipient with grace, through the action of His appointed minister.

Answer 3

He is presiding over the liturgy..The actions on concerating the elements are the Holy Spirit's actions..the same with the other sacraments..The priest is merely the minister.

Answer 4

Well back in the day, before Jesus, Priests were the mediator between man and God. I'd assume that's what they are doing nowadays in the Catholic church, and if you can tell by my tone this is completely unbiblical.

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,