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 …
Category: Spirituality
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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