How can we thank them for building structures that look like airplane hangars with nothing in them but a concrete picnic table? Where and what are confessionals?
The 'priest' makes certain that what passes for the homily doesn't offend any sinners.
In my old parish, our confessionals were turned into storage closets.
I have to give a plug here. My favorite Priest just returned to Nigeria. Now if you wanted to hear fire and brimstone, Father Norbert was your man.
He preached at our 6:30pm mass and offended many a person, stating that living together, contreception and homosexuality were pure evil to a congregation that included many visitors (who never heard this stuff)
One of the first sermons I heard him preach was on standing up for Jesus. After 30 minutes of a rousing homily, he looked at us and said, “Stand up. Stand up for Jesus!” then he lowered his voice and added, “Otherwise you will be saying ‘Allah Akbar.’”
Mouths dropped and from that moment, I loved that man.
If anyone has a few prayers for Fr. Norbert and his family members he is returning to, pass them his way. We need more like him.