Michael <<Maybe if you shared, your testimony, maybe the Priest might see the Light and get converted and leave too! >>
Hey! Don't laugh. It HAS happened. : ) When it is one's time to awaken to Jesus' highest Truth.. ( and not before)people do have their awareness of the Divine expanded. I know one fellow who was an ordained priest for 9 years, (what an amazing soul he was) but he truly wanted to KNOW God.. and all he had received so far was dualistic, intellectual understanding.. not good enough. Anyway he left and did some deep soul searching. Not long after he came into contact with a rare Grace Bestower and he had a full Grace Awakening. In that moment he was able to hold a Non-Dual Transcendent perspective of Jesus' teachings and became a Bhakti Yogi.
Grace lifted the 'veil of ignorance' and he received the Supreme Truth, the perspective of the pure Christ Consciousness. Only then was he able to grasp Jesus' most sublime teachings and ultimate purpose.
This knowledge isn't really about any particular religion.. its about being open and ready to receive what Grace has to offer. It moves one out of the realm of mundane belief of the finite mind and into the Transcendent realm of The Divine ONE. It is true that the unawakened dualistic mind cannot even begin to imagine what lies beyond its grasp. This is why Grace is essential. Anyway.. that The Lord works in mysterious ways that are unfathomable to us, is no trite saying.