Bishop John Jukes has written a powerful and inspiring personal reflection on celibacy on the occasion of his 87th birthday. He might have issued this via the Catholic Communications Network or something, but he has shown considerable media savvy in sending it directly to Damian Thompson who has posted it in full on his blog, thus gaining the venerable Bishop and his important article quite a lot more readers than the official path might have secured. I hope that it is picked up and posted on official channels as well. See: A Catholic bishop looks back gratefully on 87 years of celibacy. (I have further reason to be grateful to Bishop Jukes since it was he who had the temerity to ordain me in 1984.)
An amusing reference to this story was unwittingly provided a few minutes ago by Our Sunday Visitor on Twitter (click to enlarge):
Don't tell Damian!
4 comments:
Love that post! Of course you beat Damian T to the post! What happened to the hair Fr T? Mind you we were married in 1984 & my dear husband had plenty then..not a lot now! lol
Father, keep showing this picture whenever you can. The Bishop simply is doing his job - in this case that of Ordination; the Young Man is doing what the book says he has to; and yet the entire humanity of the experienced elder helping the petrified youngster is also shining through.
(Rhetorical Question) How on earth did you ever manage to get through the Seminary? Thank God you did!
Thanks for that link. That's a great picture of the bishop, too.
Father, how blessed you are to have been ordained by Bishop Jukes!
I am so proud (hopefully in a virtuous way) that Archbishop Burke ordained me a priest in 2003...he's truly my spiritual father.
I love him so very much. And thank the Lord for His great kindness; esp. in making His Excellency such an important prelate today...in making the EF so prominent; the sacred and timeless respect for the Sacred Liturgy; for upholding the rights of the unborn and for Christian marriage.
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