If I Were A Priest

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1823244' date='Apr 3 2009, 02:41 AM']Thanks Ms. Killjoy! [/quote]

Just doin' my job.

[quote name='hot stuff' post='1823337' date='Apr 3 2009, 11:56 AM']Here's a thought, join the seminary and try that strategy with your studies. Let us know how it works out for you.[/quote]



[quote name='Lil Red' post='1823342' date='Apr 3 2009, 12:05 PM']+J.M.J.+
and yet, he usually quotes if he's lifting a passage from a saint or early Church Father. [/quote]

Bingo!

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1823007' date='Apr 2 2009, 10:07 PM']I would never write my own homilies. I would just find one from a Church Father for the appropriate feast/gospel and read it. But no-one would know and so they would all think that I was a orator.[/quote]

That nobody would know is very unfortunate, and a large part of the problem with Catholics today. Preaching needs to be relevant to the current time with its own problems, heresies, struggles, and temptations. The Church Fathers provide an awesome resource, no doubt, but they can't offer practical advice on battling Internet pornography and similar sins that are unique to today's world. What do they have to say about our responsibility to people living in poverty in our globalize society? Anything about raising children in single-parent households? Exercising our right to vote and free speech? Show me one Church Father who preached about evangelizing in a post-Christian society.

If I were a priest, I'd make every effort to preach the best homily I can every Sunday. Good sermons require an investment of hours during the week meditating and praying over the Scriptures, praying for the parishioners and whoever else might happen to hear, researching and writing, and pouring one's self out so that one's preaching is a true labor of love, using one's personality to relate to the audience while remaining humble so that Christ is the One people ultimately see and hear. It's a fine balance and a true art, but there's absolutely no reason God couldn't raise up preachers as great as St. John Chrysostom in our own time. The world and the Church are in desperate need of some golden tongued homilists today.

Edited April 3, 2009 by LouisvilleFan

[Lil Red]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1823569' date='Apr 3 2009, 11:24 AM']The world and the Church are in desperate need of some golden tongued homilists today.[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
we need more Fulton Sheens

[Luigi]

"If I were a priest, I'd make every effort to preach the best homily I can every Sunday. Good sermons require an investment of hours during the week meditating and praying over the Scriptures, praying for the parishioners and whoever else might happen to hear, researching and writing, and pouring one's self out so that one's preaching is a true labor of love, using one's personality to relate to the audience while remaining humble so that Christ is the One people ultimately see and hear. It's a fine balance and a true art, but there's absolutely no reason God couldn't raise up preachers as great as St. John Chrysostom in our own time. The world and the Church are in desperate need of some golden tongued homilists today. "

Well said. At the same time, life on Earth is very much the same as it always was in certain ways - knowing ourselves, knowing God, relating to others, and so forth. And the Fathers of the Church did deal with a lot of those topics.

If I were a priest, I would feel free to incorporate a lot of the Church Fathers' ideas into my homilies, and of course I would give credit where credit is due, but I would also update the language as much as possible so that it can be understood by as many people as possible. Sometimes the problem with reading translations is not that the ideas are bad or even abstract, but the translation may be bad because the translator has tried to stay too close to the original grammar.

[Jaime]

If I were a priest I would forgive you for making such a silly statement

[The Bus Station]

[quote name='Lil Red' post='1823575' date='Apr 3 2009, 01:32 PM']+J.M.J.+
we need more Fulton Sheens[/quote]



and if [i]I[/i] was a priest I would wear a collar

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='The Bus Station' post='1823822' date='Apr 3 2009, 06:05 PM']

and if [i]I[/i] was a priest I would wear a collar [/quote]
I would wear a traditional cassock.
Every. Single. Day.

[The Bus Station]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1823852' date='Apr 3 2009, 06:34 PM']I would wear a traditional cassock.
Every. Single. Day.[/quote]

[img]http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/n/neo1.jpg[/img]

Word.

Edited April 3, 2009 by The Bus Station

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='The Bus Station' post='1823867' date='Apr 3 2009, 06:47 PM'][img]http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/n/neo1.jpg[/img]

[/quote]
*Traditional cassock*, silly.

[img]http://store.gaspardinc.com/catImages/bishop_cape_small.jpg[/img]
This is the bishop's one, of course, but I love that shoulder cape.

[The Bus Station]

[Anastasia13]

[quote name='hot stuff' post='1823814' date='Apr 3 2009, 04:50 PM']If I were a priest I would forgive you for making such a silly statement[/quote]
But you are not...

[Vincent Vega]

If I were a Priest, man...
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum...

[BG45]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' post='1824005' date='Apr 3 2009, 10:52 PM']If I were a Priest, man...
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum...[/quote]

Tevye the Dairyman FTW!

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1823007' date='Apr 2 2009, 09:07 PM']I would never write my own homilies. I would just find one from a Church Father for the appropriate feast/gospel and read it. But no-one would know and so they would all think that I was a orator.[/quote]

"A orator"?

[dauntingknight]

If I was a priest I would tell people what is right and what is wrong.
I would also tell my congregation that I have expectations for them and that would be telling them that they have to know their Catholic faith.