In your fifteen years of priesthood,” I asked, “have you ever felt like you have enough experience in what you do?” He laughed. Not a loud laugh—the kind of “are you joking?” laugh. “There is no priest that has ever stepped at the altar without a book. Every Mass is new. No Mass can be duplicated. Every Mass is live and now. No priest has been in Church long enough to feel like he doesn’t need to prepare.” He raised …
Author: KB Stories
And now came the time . I had tested the waters. Now, it was time to dive. I leaned forward, voice low but steady. Do you feel or think that a priest’s holiness begins when he takes the vows? I asked He looked me straight in the eye without even giving it a thought and he said “No”. That was firm. I thought to myself. He leaned back , his eyes thoughtful ” Vows are usually a public commitment and …
He laughed, so hard to shake off the last of the solemnity from our earlier talk. “An awkward moment?” he repeated, holding his chin. “Oh, I have those. Maybe not one… but i have two on top of my head.” He began, “The Mass began beautifully,” he said, smiling like he was watching it happen all over again. “Everything was perfect until it was almost time for Communion.” He leaned in, lowering his voice as if what he was about …
I asked him “Have you ever heard a confession that left you carrying the weight of a sacred trust?” He didn’t speak. I knew it was a heavy one to start with but i chose do dive. Right? He sighed. A sound that seemed to come from the soles of his shoes. He put down his toothpick. Took a slow, deliberate sip of the fruit juice, as if gathering strength from the sweetness in it. I knew then, he had …
He spent fifteen years of his priesthood hoping to sing a song that he never got to sing. We will get into that. It’s one of those bright Monday afternoons that make you forget its just the beginning of a week, and I’m sitting across from a young priest in his early forties. Well, young here is relative. To millennials like me and our parents,40 is young, to a Gen Z it’s old. ·He tells me he was ordained fifteen …
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