"The priest feeds and nourishes his people with the food from heaven."

In the early years of the Jesus Movement, the members of each local community spiritually nourished each other.  They did not need a priest who had some elevated ontological status.  This was before the control freaks like Irenaeus and Athanasius hijacked the movement. 

Thanks to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th century control freaks, we now have a clerical hierarchy that dictates and exploits rather than serves.

In the 21st century, the number of people willing to be dictated to and exploited by the hierarchs seems to be shrinking, no matter what label is applied to the local parish priest.