First thing today I have to get the newsletter finished by putting in the sermon summary that I do each week. Then I have Mass - our Saturday Latin Mass at the Lady Altar which is popular and a great consolation to me. After that, we have an hour of exposition during which I hear confessions.
Today, unusually, we have two weddings in the parish. When they are over it will be time for the evening Confessions and then the evening Mass. Fortunately, I have my regular supply priest for that Mass but I always go on to read the notices. Since I am not saying the Mass, I can also be there to see people as they come out of the Church. Once that is finished, I am off to the a Parish Dinner and Dance, a new initiative from our Lunch Club. For this we are using the Hall of my next-door neighbour, Fr Francis Hartley at St John Fisher, Bexley.
Although it is a busy day, I no longer find such days too tiring. They can be quite rejuvenating if you remember that each of the particular events has its own character and offers an opportunity to exercise the ministry of the priesthood in a different way. They remind me that:
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Is that latin in the ordinary or extraordianry manifestation father?
Ordinary for the moment - but I expect we will go extraordinary very soon :-)
Oh wow! Great day Fr & Fulton Sheen...even more wonderful!
Like you though i revel in the ordinary day. Housework,washing, ironing & breakfst first. Then adoration & Benediction prior to the 11am morning Mass. Fr Dermot was giving a talk (as did Fr Paul for his homily) on venerable Baronius. i wasn't able to attend that. Then on to collecting the 'red boxes' forever engraved in my memory with that picture! & more family duties...i expect what i'm trying to say is that we Catholics all have our complimentary roles & the richness from them.
We are extremely blessed...
No, no he is not, Father.
;)
God bless.
However..the afternoon dissolved into a comedy of sorts! Check my blog!
If father doesn't mind, here's a great link to the audio archives of Fulton Sheen's radio series 'Life is Worth living'
I turn the PC on 20 min shutdown and play a episode each evening as I settle down to sleep.
If anyone can get a copy of Bishop Sheen's 'Life of Christ' I could not recommend it more highly - in fact please read anything by this larger than life witness to all that catholicism holds dear; [although be warned - his doctoral thesis 'God and intelligence in modern philosophy' is a brilliant indictment on modern thought and a wonderfully informative apologia for neo-thomism; but it's very intellectually demanding] . My Parish Priest/Boss in the US used to ridicule me for staying in on a Friday evening to watch his old TV show repeated on EWTN; after about the twentieth snidey mendacious comment about FS lying about his qualifications or being a useless administrator I finally blew my top and told my beloved boss that the saintly Bishop could [I apologise beforehand] p*ss a better sermon than anything he had ever said from the pulpit. It was one of the final nails in my employment's coffin. Serves me right I know, but the way some people are so dismissive of anything 'old-school' just riles me. I read a lot of contemporary books on ethics, too many by catholic clerics who think morality is a personalist, situationist,pragmatic issue or psychological self-revealing and empowering. A single sentence from one of Fulton Sheen's books speaks more of intrinsic catholic moral decency and the love of God and neighbour than a lot of the many thousands of pages published these days.
http://www.bishopsheen.excerptsofinri.com/
LOL - you may have lost your job but I bet that it was almost worth it to make that comment. I agree with you that it is mean-spirited for priests to knock the likes of Fulton Sheen.
At the English College in 1980, new arrivals were asked to sit in a circle and say what had brought them to the seminary. A friend of mine said with great confidence "Bing Crosby in 'Going my Way' and the sermons of Fulton Sheen." It was the most incorrect answer he could have given but he and I both enjoyed it immensely.
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