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Derekap	Wednesday, 21. January 2009, 19:17
Posts: 3,415 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	I remember days when priests (like their parishioners) had to walk , cycle, or use the bus. Cycling on a frosty night or in rain or snow and strong winds a few miles along badly lit and often unlit roads to a dying person was no fun. Then back to the rectory and up at seven to offer Holy Mass at half-past, having fasted from Midnight. Sometimes, and I heard this from priests themselves, the dying person was sitting up in bed having recovered. I have also heard that neighbours or friends or relatives called the priest because a husband was beating-up his wife and when the priest got there the victim would turn on the priest for interfering. Very few priests indeed had cars in them there days. Their problems today are certainly different. ********************** There is something to be said for having over mystified a Vocation for the priesthood and probably the pressure of keeping-up with the O'Briens for having priests in the family, which may not be so keen these days. Occasionally it has been mentioned we all have a Vocation - whether it be a supermarket check-out cashier or chairman of a company. Also, so long as priests behave themselves (or not found out), they are rarely unemployed.
	Derekap

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