This included communion, which I personally related more to as the first Passover meal, yet which never gave me a lack of the feeling which I knew was obligatory to the faith I was helping to make stronger in others by my musical talents and ecclesiastiacal embrace.
This priest is selling his congregation short in not fulfilling his duties to and toward them.
If he feels he cannot do this in good conscience, he should resign rather than live in his lies, and do even worse by those who believe.
Thanks for a great message. I also have a Jewish background, but was brought up as ‘nothing’, essentially. I minored in religion in college, and eventually chose Catholicism because of reasons that many of the Catholics on this site would abhor. Specifically, because of the concept of catholic = universal, and the foundation of catholicism on monotheistic Judaism. I personally know there is a God more profoundly than I know I have hands and eyes. That said, I also feel that the reality of God is far greater than my ~3 pound human brain could possibly understand. I know God through many Earthly miracles, including the light in the eyes of children, the playfulness and community of the animals in my back yard, the sacrifice I see people make for others every day, the love of parents for their children and for each other, and the decisions some make to lay down their lives for what they feel is right. That’s just for starters. To me, the specifics of God don’t matter so much, and are beyond me, but God defines to me the meaning of existence. I find it anti-intellectual to think that all of existence is ‘random’ and without meaning.
Anyway, sorry for the diatribe. Thanks again for your post.