Wow. Excellent homily.
I was at a church dinner last week after mass. I spoke with our pastor and mentioned how happy I was with our new young priest, Fr. Brian. The pastor said, “oh really? I am getting mixed reviews”. He said he has had complaints and he was not there to judge for himself. I was appalled and told him so. We chatted and I mentioned a friend in DC area who sends me the homilies of a priest there. My pastor almost rolled his eyes at me.
Fr. Decelles sums up the reason I like Fr. Brian so much. Fr. Brian actually said that he will teach us what Jesus wants us to know whether we want to hear it or not.
Our pastor disagrees, it would appear. He has never spoken so frankly to us as Fr. Brian or Fr. Decelles. No surprise he wouldn’t like Fr. Brian’s homilies. I find our pastor always plays it “safe”. I don’t recall Jesus playing it safe.
that’s why i think it’s so important to give positive feedback to the priests that do go out on a limb and preach that way. you KNOW they are getting the negative comments, so it’s important that they get positive comments so they don’t get discouraged or beaten down by the libs. xshub insisted we go out by way of the front so we could shake father decelles hand and he could give him props for the sermons. father decelles is not young, but also not old. i’d say in his 40s, so he CAN take it, and he is so strong that no matter what, i’m sure he would never get beaten down. but that’s not true of all of them. so they need to hear that they are reaching and impacting people.
is FR acting up for anyone else? it’s slow as MOLASSES and then i get error messages every other time i click on it.