For our Parish Priest

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Our Priest has decided to leave the priesthood to pursue the family life with a parishioner. Our parish is devastated, he has always appeared to be a very good and devoted priest to his vocation, which makes this even more surprising to everyone. This priest is a very well loved priest by the entire parish. I personally feel extremely saddened and disgusted by this entire situation. What’s worse is that we have friends in RCIA and apparently there are many in the RCIA program who are now having doubts about continuing on because of this situation. They were not expecting this to happen in a Catholic Church, none of us were. He’ll be leaving at the end of the month, which puts so much more pressure on our pastor, who is elderly, and now has to manage our very large parish all by himself. We are sooo very short of priests in our Diocese, there are absolutely no replacements for this priest once he leaves.

Anyways, please pray for our parish, please pray for our RCIA candidates, please pray for our pastor, and please pray for this priest.
 
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Our Priest has decided to leave the priesthood to pursue the family life with a parishioner. Our parish is devastated, he has always appeared to be a very good and devoted priest to his vocation, which makes this even more surprising to everyone. This priest is a very well loved priest by the entire parish. I personally feel extremely saddened and disgusted by this entire situation. What’s worse is that we have friends in RCIA and apparently there are many in the RCIA program who are now having doubts about continuing on because of this situation. They were not expecting this to happen in a Catholic Church, none of us were. He’ll be leaving at the end of the month, which puts so much more pressure on our pastor, who is elderly, and now has to manage our very large parish all by himself. We are sooo very short of priests in our Diocese, there are absolutely no replacements for this priest once he leaves.

Anyways, please pray for our parish, please pray for our RCIA candidates, please pray for our pastor, and please pray for this priest.
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I promise prayers. A few years ago I had a similar experience within a Catholic community - the wounds were so deep. Also prayers for the parishioner involved and their family.
 
Prayers said for the devastated parish, RCIA candidates, your pastor and the priest.
Sorry to hear about this turn of events.
Mary.
 
***Hail Mary,
full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

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Hail Mary, full of grace.
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.
 
I am so sorry. Remembering your entire parish in my daily prayers.

If you can, please help your elderly pastor in any way he requires to facilitate the task of managing the parish singlehandedly.

God bless. :console:
 
How very unfortunate for this parish…a Priest is required to give all of himself to serving God. Any temptations to leave the Priesthood should be dealt with. Does God will this for him? I don’t know. Praying for all involved.
 
acadiANNA said:
How very unfortunate for this parish…a Priest is required to give all of himself to serving God. Any temptations to leave the Priesthood should be dealt with. Does God will this for him? I don’t know. Praying for all involved.
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He’s human like all of us; I’d rather see a priest leave than be in an illicit relationship
while administering Sacraments and Celebrating Mass.

Mary.
 
What a painful situation. It is true that we don’t know everything about the situation. I have prayed that he and the parishioner would do God’s will; that you, the parish, the RCIA students, and the pastor will be comforted and healed. I prayed that the pastor will receive help from his parish and that he will get the priest there that God wants, and for God to send us all more holy priests, I also believe that in answer to these prayers, that everyone, especially the RCIA students, do a prayerful, in depth study of the Lord’s Prayer. The devil wants to divide and conquer. Forgiveness and trusting in God’s providence will heal this wound.
 
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.

Amen.
 
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