To: Siobhan
That is awful, Siobhan, I didn't realize that you lived in Australia (and not in Pell's diocese, alas).
You make a very good point.
I hope things change, somehow, for you all there. We had an odd thing happen in my diocese, which got a new bishop who moved everybody around. He removed a frivolous nitwit who had been pastor of the same cushy suburban parish for almost 20 years and assigned him to a black ghetto parish in Jacksonville. (The pastor refused to accept the assignment, but that's a whole different story.)
The new pastor he assigned had spent years at the university parish, which is the worst in town, and everyone was prepared for things to go even further downhill. BUT the man came in, started Adoration, Stations of the Cross during Lent, formed a K of C chapter, started pro-life prayer services, and even announced that the Kyrie was to be said in Greek and the Agnus Dei in Latin.
Everybody was stunned. I guess he must have been suffering quietly all those years in the university parish. And there are probably some priests in your diocese who are like this man, just waiting for their chance. I hope they get it! And in the meantime, we're all praying for those languishing in the Archdiocese of Brisbane.
119 posted on
02/29/2004 9:48:41 AM PST by
livius
To: livius
My husband's work has taken us Down Under. At the moment I am back stateside visiting my daughter Maeve and my brand new grandson. And soon my son Finn and my dear daughter-in-law Aileen are to have their first child, a girl, who they will name Mary Rose. So I packed up my little ones and we all flew back home for this time of joy. Very soon my husband ("Himself") shall arrive and lay eyes on his new grandson. I look forward to that moment more than I can say.
130 posted on
02/29/2004 6:29:42 PM PST by
Siobhan
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To: livius
Cardinal Pell - how I admire him. I wish more people would add him to their intentions.
131 posted on
02/29/2004 6:37:21 PM PST by
Siobhan
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