Thank you very much RG!
Yes Jesus did help me because, ahem, I am not known far and wide for being quiet and reserved. Turning the other cheek is not my forte is what I am saying here.
I don’t know the rules about communicating before mass. Back when I was in the choir and the very mean Father Jim was our Pastor, we were told that we bothered the parishioners praying quietly before mass in their pews.
“You don’t want me to have to come out and shut you up,” father Jim told us, kind of a mean way to put it I thought. We had to be in place at choir an hour before mass began. We had parts to give out and last minute music adjustments to go over.
And we get beat up for communicating?
So I understand the prayer before mass but I think it’s very unrealistic to expect people not to talk before mass although there are limits of course.
I wrote Father Tom an email asking him to seek my side should anything come of this. Iris, for the record, is leader of the confirmation teaching group, very involved.
It’s not like this big mouthed jerk didn’t beat on some people who are hard workers for the church. No I don’t know him and never want to.
Father Tom got a new knee by the way. To me he looks exactly the same and is still very big. He does seem to get around a bit better but I expected more.
Heh.
Now the budget is going to starve grandma and Meals on Wheels will grind to a halt.
- - - but I think it’s very unrealistic to expect people not to talk before mass
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talk the rest of the day. talk all day 6 days.
But I want to recollect myself for the awesome sacrifice to come.
Playing Devil's Advocate, IF you were inadvertently communicating in such as way as to disturb that man's prayer, you were being thoughtless, but in the manner of his response, he was being unkind.
You can be more thoughtful of others in the future, but you can't force the man to be kind. The only good thing you can do is pray for him.
; ) Jeff