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| The Priest-most Important Person In The Parish?; Two tier laity? | |
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| Topic Started: Wednesday, 11. October 2006, 23:24 (1,519 Views) | |
| medjugorje vin | Wednesday, 16. May 2007, 15:47 Post #61 |
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The priest is the MOST important person in the Parish.No priest... No Weddings No Baptism's No Communion No Confirmation No Consecration No Confession No Last Rites No Funeral No Mass No Christmas Service No Easter Service No Church When a priest blesses you it is Jesus Himself who is blessing you,when a priest absolves you it is Jesus Himself who is absolving you,when a priest consecrates the Mass it is Jesus Himself who is consecrating the Mass.Every time a priest carries out a Sacramental duty it is Jesus who is carrying it out through the priest. If you truly knew what was being achieved during the Sacraments we would be doing them perpetually. A Parish without a priest is a most terrible thought. :( Praised be Jesus and Mary ALWAYS Medjugorje Vin |
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| Eve | Wednesday, 16. May 2007, 16:46 Post #62 |
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There is such a parish. Diocese of Plymouth, Isles of Scilly Page American forum members may be interested to know, The Isles of Scilly is a cluster of populated off shore Islands in The Atlantic, about 50 miles west of the South Western coat of England. They are served by a priest on the mainland but they have no guarantee of Sunday Mass. ,
There was something on our old forum about this. The Isles of Scilly have one, or perhaps two, Permanent Deacons. They can conduct weddings (without Nuptial Mass) and funeral services (without Requiem Mass). I think they conduct baptisms. I wonder if the priest from Penzance goes out by boat or helicopter for such occasions? All I know is, if there is no priest on holiday in the Scillies the Catholics have no Mass, and I imagine no Confessions. |
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| Rose of York | Wednesday, 16. May 2007, 22:08 Post #63 |
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Lumen Gentium, paragraph 10
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| PJD | Thursday, 17. May 2007, 19:13 Post #64 |
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That about sums it up Rose. ? leaving laity v. laity perhaps. PJD |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 17. May 2007, 20:34 Post #65 |
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In our parish we have the sandwich system. The filling (She Who Must be Obeyed) tells the top slice (the priest) ane the bottom slice (folks like me) what to do, in matters liturgical and secular. The top slice takes no notice. The bottom slice is divided into two segments. One segment shows due deference to the filling, the other segment is tolerantly deaf. |
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| PJD | Friday, 18. May 2007, 19:36 Post #66 |
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So there are two deaf segments and two ?what segments. PJD |
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| Rose of York | Friday, 18. May 2007, 20:08 Post #67 |
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The bottom slice, the laity, consists of: Segment A. Those who obey the filling (She Who Must be Obeyed) and Segment B. Those who pretend to be deaf because we take no notice of the filling (She Who Must be Obeyed). We acknowledge the precedence to which the top slice (our parish priest) is entitled. So there. |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 19. May 2007, 19:23 Post #68 |
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In the Middlesbrough Diocese there are parishes which are still "independent" from each other administratively but have to share one or more priests. I don't know any details of lay parish aministrators. |
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| Deleted User | Thursday, 26. July 2007, 00:00 Post #69 |
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Yesterday Benedict XVI met with Italian clergy in the church of St. Justina, Martyr, in Auronzo, near Lorenzago di Cadore . The meeting covered varied subjects considered by the Holy Father on other occasions in his talks and documents.
VISreport I really liked the quote that Priests should live with their feet on earth and their eyes on heaven, but then. not only Priests should follow that maxim. KatyA |
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| PJD | Thursday, 26. July 2007, 20:01 Post #70 |
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The essence of things here Katy is the seeking of humility PJD |
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| Deleted User | Thursday, 26. July 2007, 23:50 Post #71 |
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I took it to be another way of saying we are in this world, but not of it - we should always have our eyes on heaven KatyA |
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| PJD | Friday, 27. July 2007, 20:01 Post #72 |
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I misled you a little I think in my reply Katy. My point was directed entirely to the topic title especially "most important person". PJD |
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| Deleted User | Friday, 27. July 2007, 20:21 Post #73 |
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Sorry PJD - I did misunderstand you. |
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| Ned | Friday, 27. July 2007, 21:41 Post #74 |
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About twenty years ago I spent a short time in a very rural part of Kerry where, because of depopulation, and a shortage of priests, several parishes had been combined into one. The local church, which was a substantial one, was a chapel-of-ease. There was only one Mass a week, on the Sunday. The Parish Church, with the PP and two curates, was in a small market-town two or three miles away. The arrangement seemed to work very well. I don't know why we cannot have the same arrangements in our larger English cities where parish churches are sometimes in an easy walking distance of one or two others. Priests are too valuable to be tied down in the smaller urban parishes |
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| maklavan | Saturday, 28. July 2007, 15:07 Post #75 |
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I would have thought that every person in the parish is equally important in the eyes of God. Other than that, the little old lady fingering her beads and talking to Jesus on the back row. |
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