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y does so with his wife he does not intervene in another s family but honors the fact that the father of the family has jurisdiction over that family similarly a priest does not go into another priest s parish he respects that priest s fatherhood his jurisdiction over that parish my parishioner friend of course is right a priest by his assignment as pastor to a particular group of people is as it were wedded to them he acquires the relationship of father and husband by the canonical assignment given him by his bishop or delegated to him by the pastor of the parish this is why a priest s heart must be essentially paternal and his love spousal as many say priests must be those who would make the best husbands and the best fathers they must be capable of an exclusive love with jesus christ who is the real spouse of the soul it so happened that the next day monday i read this in the wonderful book in sinu iesu when heart speaks to heart the journal of a priest at prayer by a benedictine monk i shall quote the chapter in full for it bears meditating particularly by priests but laity will learn better how they should relate to their priests and how they should expect their priests to relate to them by pondering these words the words that follow are words from god the father to the monk faith in my fatherhood will be the path of healing for many who like you were kept from growing up in freedom and joy beneath the gaze of their father i want to banish fear from your life i want you to feel loved and surrounded by my presence as father a presence that supports you that will not hold you back from becoming the man that i have always wanted you to be a presence that will allow you in turn to become a father a father in my image a father as my jesus was fully a father in the midst of his disciples they discovered my fatherhood in his countenance they sensed it in drawing close to his heart the saw it at work in the signs of mercy and of power that he worked in my name it must be so for you be the image of my fatherhood by means of the fatherly love that i shall place in your heart be my instrument for the healing of many who did not know what it is to be loved by a father the fatherhood of the priest is a grace that he corresponds to my designs of love upon him the church the beloved spouse of my only begotten son suffers in that so many priests do not know how to live the grace of their fatherhood souls ask for fathers and too often they are sent away abandoned to live like spiritual orphans you be a father receive the graces and energies of my fatherhood in your soul the more a priest lives his fatherly mission the more will he resemble my son who said he who sees me sees the father i bless you my son i bless you to be a father for the praise of my glory and for the joy of the church of my son posted by father john boyle at 9 25 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday february 26 2018 three years i made a ten day retreat at our lady of clear creak abbey in oklahoma in advent my first visit there was for a week retreat last lent in many senses i think i found my spiritual home i ll be back one of the things that was revealed to me was that after his thirty years of hidden life our lord had just three years in which to carry out his public ministry set out his teaching gather together twelve apostles who would be the foundation stones of the church setting peter as the rock upon which the church would be built three years he didn t hold planning committees make five year pastoral plans devise strategies he did and he taught his mission would end in apparent failure on the cross but by dying he was able to rise to a life beyond death and send the holy spirit to guide the church through the centuries in accordance with his promise i will be with you always on that retreat i saw the futility of political thinking in the church and indeed in my life i must live as if i have only three years in which to do all that the lord desires i must take risks be daring and not embrace the prudence of the world in these days of moral decadence in society and doctrinal crisis in the church this is all the more urgent i recently turned 60 i have no idea how long i have to live my mother died aged 72 and my father died aged 79 i expect to live longer than they but i do not know i do not think that i am holy enough for death but i am ready for it at any time all that i ask the lord is to give me enough time to get my affairs in order so that others are not burdened by a death for which the deceased has not provided on that same retreat jesus and mary asked me to make a very serious decision concerning renunciation i was preparing to renew my consecration to our lady s immaculate heart i knew that i could not renew it coherently without making that renunciation our life must be for god or it s for nothing the crises in the world and the crises in the church are crises of saints we can enjoy the good things of the earth but this season of lent is surely a season of special graces so that the collect of this monday after the second sunday in lent 1962 missal may be granted grant we beseech thee o almighty god that thy family while afflicting the flesh by fasting from food may follow justice and abstain from sin through our lord jesus christ thy son who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy spirit for ever and ever amen posted by father john boyle at 9 11 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday october 4 2015 purity of heart and scandal last sunday in philadelphia pope francis told families and the whole church may god grant us the grace to be worthy of that purity of heart which is not scandalized by the gospel today at mass we heard these words because of the hardness of your hearts moses wrote you this commandment permitting divorce but from the beginning of creation god made them male and female for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh so they are no longer two but one flesh therefore what god has joined together no human being must separate whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her and if she divorces her husband and marries another she commits adultery these are scandalous words to a society with an impure hardened heart these words are probably scandalous to many catholics how many priests dared to preach today on the indissolubility of marriage and the immorality of marrying another while the original spouse is still living how many including catholics are scandalized by the church s teaching in fidelity to nature and to christ that marriage is only between one man and one women and what scandal is caused by a homosexual priest who has for years been working at the heart of the church in the office charged with defending the doctrine of the faith and who reveals he is in love with his male partner and that he has a right to marry him which is why we need to pray for all the bishops gathered in rome for the synod on the family that they be granted the purity of heart so as not to find our lord s teaching scandalous but rather they way to truth beauty happiness and eternal life archbishop sample of portland in oregon has asked the faithful of his archdiocese to join him in prayer for the synod an urgent appeal for prayer i am going to make this bold request for prayers from all who are willing and able the ordinary synod of bishops begins this sunday october 4 and will run through october 25 the theme of the synod is the vocation and mission of the family in the church and the contemporary world this is an extremely important moment in the life of the church and for the future of the christian family i am asking us all to begin now and pray for the holy spirit s guidance for the holy father the synod bishops and other participants i am suggesting that we all commit to praying the holy rosary and or the chaplet of divine mercy every day from now through the end of the synod on october 25 pray that god s will be done at this synod and that all the powers of the enemy satan and his demons be kept far from the work of the synod pope francis said earlier this year let us pray to the lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it families are the domestic church where jesus grows in the love of a married couple in the lives of their children this is why the devil attacks the family so much the devil doesn t want it and tries to destroy it the devil tries to make love disappear from there will you join me in prayer posted by father john boyle at 5 28 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 29 2015 the cassock and the peripheries it is well known that pope francis tells us to go the peripheries to find those at the margins the peripheries are not some place far away they are right on our doorsteps many have read the esquire article what happened when i dressed like a priest sir alec guinness walked off a set wearing a cassock and a little boy came up to him and took his hand crying mon pere mon pere yesterday i went shopping in a local supermarket i happened to be wearing the cassock pope francis had departed from the us that morning there is a transgender person who works in the store i have got to know this person over the past few months they always say hello and stop for a chat yesterday this person put their arm around me and said what a wonderful person pope francis is if ever this person felt alienated by the church and i have no reason to know one way or the other they certainly feel at home in the company of a catholic priest at the checkout i had a reasonably full cart a man with a budgie on his shoulder had just a couple of items so i let him pass he commented pope francis is teaching you guys well and spoke about how pleased he was that the pope joined folk in a homeless shelter rather than join the white house banquet pope francis visit has created a groundswell of good will the best service we can do to our fellow citizen is to provide joyful humble but unabashed witness to our respective states in life priest religious lay person the church must be visible at the peripheries which are just a short walk from home posted by father john boyle at 7 54 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 28 2015 dorothy day and what the laity need from a priest i am only now learning about the great catholic social activist dorothy day from the little i have read about her i am just over half way through her autobiography the long loneliness she must be a saint she made a choice between god and her common law husband she chose baptism for their daughter even though she knew her husband would not support this she chose entry into the catholic church even though she knew this mean the end of this common law partnership preferring god in everything appears to be what she came to learn was paramount in the midst of the long loneliness she was experiencing even while her life was too full she writes i arose arose early for mass and i began to go to daily communion for the first time in the four years i had been a catholic this at the urging of a priest whom i never happened to see to whom i spoke in the confessional to whom i confided my struggles from week to week father zamien was salesian and was not long afterward sent back to jugoslavia he was the kind of priest who gave you spiritual counsel who recommended spiritual books to read who advised daily mass and daily communion and made you know your importance as a child of god in that little church there were two priests who heard confessions every morning before and after mass one on either side of the rear of the church when father zamien was no longer there i turned to father pelligrini who even now is still hearing confessions in his stifling little box on the right hand side of the church of our lady help of christians on east twelfth street on the other side of the church the windows were open all summer and your eyes could wander if the sermon was too long and in italian out to the window boxes of the tenements on avenue a there were the ever present petunias the boxed basil the tomato plants and the morning glories climbing up the fire escapes yes i was happy that summer in the evening i went back to the church for benediction of the blessed sacrament then in the quiet evening i went hope to read the life of st teresa of avila and her foundations she charmed me completely posted by father john boyle at 1 51 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels confession laity social action spiritual direction thursday july 31 2014 rescuing the sign of peace it has been a long time since i have posted anything i m having to relearn sandro magister informs us that a new teaching document has been sent to the bishops of the world concerning the sign of peace following the synod on the eucharist in 2005 a study was made as to whether the sign of peace should be moved to another place in the mass e g before the offertory or remain in its traditional place it has been decided with pope francis approval that no change should be made as to its place to avoid structural changes to the mass but that its true nature should be taught i cannot find the letter in english but from the spanish version one learns the following the invitation to exchange the sign of peace should not be given in a mechanical way i e it shouldn t be just automatic if it is likely that the sign of peace will not be exchanged in an appropriate manner in a given circumstance of if it is judged that pedagogically it is a good thing not to carry it out on certain occasions it may be omitted and even should be omitted we are reminded that the rubrics say then if appropriate the deacon or the priest adds let us offer each other the sign of peace abuses such as the following are to be avoided the introduction of a song for peace which does not exist in the roman rite the moving around of the faithful during the sign of peace the priest leaving the altar to give the peace to some of the faithful in circumstances such as christmas easter or during ritual celebrations such as baptisms first communion confirmation marriage ordination religious profession or funerals turning the sign of peace into an occasion to greet or to express condolences to those present episcopal conferences are invited to prepare liturgical catechesis about the significance of the rite of peace in the roman liturgy and the correct way of carrying it out during the mass the congregation for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments encloses with their letter some orientational lines the holy father pope francis approved the letter on june 7 a...