Is the Bishop now the source of the Office? Is it so that the Office is a bishop's office, the Bishop has the entire Office and gives deacons and priests a different share of his Office?

That is what I have always believed. About this I have always been convinced. The strange thing is that I never thought that it is called, even in the best Catholic terminology, the PRIEST office, not the BISHOP office. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I believe that it is due to inadequate teaching during the preparation for the Office. Such things were never spoken of. That was not done in Germany at the time, and therefore it should not be done in Sweden.

The form and adornment of the Liturgy have developed in various ways throughout the Church's history, but its basic integrity must always be guarded and maintained. That is to say, the preaching of the Holy Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles as fulfilled in Christ Jesus, and the administration of His Holy Supper with His Word in accordance with His institution, are ever and always to be the central, controlling, decisive, and definitive factors.

A couple of days after my ordination, I was standing outside the window of the Sydsvenska Dagbladet in Lund, reading the news on a sunny May morning, when a comrade came up to me and asked: "Well, how does it now feel to have the character indelebilis?" It was 1922, liberal theology was in its heyday, and it was in good taste to joke about such things. I fell into the jargon and answered effusively that it did not feel as if, as far as I noticed, I had received the indelible character of the Office.