Today’s piece is not as pleasant a read as last week’s, nor was it as easy to write, because in the midst of dreadful revelation none of us want to believe we have any measure of participation in these sins of the Church. As a reminder, that column suggested that the laity are being called to help the Church in a terrible moment. Sheen That quote by Sheen is what leads my column today over at Word on Fire, where I am following up on last week’s piece. Until priests live to become saints, - to die to themselves for God and for the souls of their parishes - there will be no. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. In all that we do, we turn to Saint Joseph, Protector of the Universal Church, that he will protect our people, and us priests, who like him, are called to be the father of our adopted spiritual children.Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious.
I am confident that we will rise to the occasion as our Brothers did in past times of war and viral outbreaks. I turn to you, my Brothers, in this unprecedented time in the history of the Diocese of Allentown, to live your Priesthood creatively in generous pastoral service to our people.
Join Kevin Wells and I as we discuss a book our generation of the Church most desperately needs. Best I have ever read on the priesthood (better than Fulton Sheen on the subject). By Pete Socks 21 October AD 2019 One Comment Off the Shelf 147 Kevin Wells. The Priests We Need to Save the Church is an amazing book. An amazing conversation with Kevin Wells about his critically needed book, The Priests We Need to Save the Church. Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age. Please educate them that this is not the case. The Priests We Need to Save the Church Off the Shelf 147 with Kevin Wells. This item: The Priests We Need to Save the Church. Some of the faithful will interpret this as a lack of faith in the Holy Eucharist or pastoral timidity. I am very sad to mandate this however, medical and epidemiological science indicates that limiting social interaction is the only effective way to stop this spread of the contagion. Kevin Wells, and the lives of the exemplary priests he describes, set out to.
Public Masses will be suspended in the Diocese of Allentown until further notice. This book is a salutary challenge to what can become an all-too-comfortable life. The Great High Priest is now calling us to greater pastoral care of our people in a physically dangerous time. We have indeed been thrust into times none of us could have envisioned on our Ordination Day.