Great Future Bishop?

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I found this great article from a link over at www.fisheaters.com. Don’t know if it has been posted yet, so if it has, please disregard.
While the Priest says he doesn’t want to be a Bishop, he sure has thought a lot about what he would do if he was. Only if we had more Bishops who thought like this.Check it out:

renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/071020
 
:signofcross: O Lord, may this man, and men of like devoutness and orthodoxy be blessed by you, and if it be in accordance with your divine will, Bless us very abundantly with such devout priests to serve as our Holy Bishops to purge your Holy Catholic Church of heresy, and encourage your faithful in devotion unto you, and to live with love, charity a devout and obedient faith. I pray humbly. Amen.
In Namen des Vaters, und des Sohnes, und des Heilgen Geistes, Amen.
 
You know what the floors of Hell are supposed to be paved with…
It is so hard to be Bishop, it is easy to forget your faith and just become a CEO, a nice figurehead who just makes friends.

We need to pray for our Bishops that they remember the faith of their fathers and may God keep raising good men like this one to the priesthood.

God Bless
Scylla
 
yes St. John Chrysostum said during the Height of Arian Heresy, that the floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of corrupt and heretical Bishops.
 
Some of his comments sound quite good; others sound inexperienced. However, his comment about a moratorium on annulments seems to amount to a denial of a right to be heard, which is granted in Canon law. I agree with him that there ar many bad marriages due to poor or non-existent catechesis, but that is not improved by denying a Canonical right.
 
Isn’t there already a shortage of priests for the parishes? If some of the support offices were eliminated as this priest suggests, it seems like it would just add to the problem of not having enough priests to take care of the parish families needs.
 
South Carolina is Bishopless…

How can I ask, request, beg beg BEG! For this man to take over?
 
I would love to see this Priest get what he doesn’t want. He would be loved and respected by many. The priest who actually does what he talks about will be the one to lead a great army of “Soldiers of the Cross” who “in the name of Jesus, shall Conquer!”
 
Melo said:
Isn’t there already a shortage of priests for the parishes? If some of the support offices were eliminated as this priest suggests, it seems like it would just add to the problem of not having enough priests to take care of the parish families needs.
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That occured to me too. He has a lot of enthusiasm, and I strongly support his comments about the bishop supporting and being with (physically) his priests. Too often bishops end up acting as if their job were that of an upper level mamngement in a corporation, not that of an apostle.

He would do well to understand that each priest has charisms, and not all have the same set. Part of what the Diocese dose is support the whole Church in its area, not just the priests, and some of what he wants to do away with is the resource base and guidance that some of the offices provide.
 
We must remember to take this man’s essay with a grain of salt. It isn’t a how-to instruction on being a Bishop, just some musings on what he would like to do if he were in a position to do it. He probably realizes that he probably wouldn’t accomplish all of that as a Bishop.
 
I’ve met Fr. Farfaglia in person and corresponded with him online. I would liken him to a soldier who stands his ground while the lesser ones flee the massacre. He has seen all sorts of craziness, and instead of despairing he fights on. He gives you the straight assessment of how things are, but doesn’t let you get hopeless about it. He knows what his mission is, and he is determined to see it through. Overall, I’d sum up his attitude as this: “To heck with the status quo, I have a soul to save and a flock of souls to save.” He is ultra-loyal to the Magisterium and the Holy Father (as a priest should be) and is valiantly prolife. He once told me, “If the radical legislators had their way and preaching against abortion was a hate crime, I’d be put in jail the day after their laws were enacted.”

His parish, St. Helena’s, is an oasis for those who have discovered it.
 
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