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fpk3
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May 07, 2006 9:23 AM
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For instance, why doesn�t he, at the lunch time homily, get up and say I just baptized a baby today who died? Why? Because it wouldn�t be pastoral to everybody else he�s supposed to be serving.
Actually, my previous pastor did exactly this. In almost every homily he would share some experience from his daily work. As a new parishoner, I realized that this self-disclosure made me feel like I was a part of the greater community. I think many priests think laypeople can't handle the truth, but this priest really presented the truth in love. He told what happened, but he also connected what happened to the greater context, so that we could see the hand of God at work in the daily life (and death) of the parish. Being pastoral should not mean watering down or protecting folks from life.
Fred
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Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. ~ Benedict XVI
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