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If Catholic priests continue to preach to the faithful in our churches, rather than the community at large, our faith will continue to diminish dramatically. Priests are the only people with the knowledge of theology who are able to administer the apostolic church. I believe they are in gross neglect of their duty in this regard.
 
Those who speak against Priests are speaking against the Holy Spirit ,because they are the anointed of the Lord ,and represent Jesus and gives us,or rather administer the Sacraments to us, which we receive the untold Graces,instead of finding fault of them, pray for them,offer a Rosary God Bless, Matthew 12:32 32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.


PRIESTHOOD - CRITICISM OF PRIESTS
Our Lord’s revelations to Mutter Vogel

“One should NEVER attack a priest, even when he’s
in error, rather one should pray and do penance that
I’ll grant him My grace again. He alone fully
represents Me, even when he doesn’t live after my
example!
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Bookmark and Share When a Priest falls we should extend him a helping hand THROUGH PRAYER AND NOT
judgment over a priest has voiced it over me; child, never let a priest be attacked, take up
his defense.” “Child Never judge your confessor, rather pray much for him and offer every
Thursday, through the hands of My Blessed Mother, Holy Communion (for Him)” Never
again accept an out of the way word about a Priest, and speak no unkind word (about
them) EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE!Every Priest is My Vicar and My Heart will be sickened and
insulted because of it! If you hear a judgment (against a Priest) pray a Hail Mary."

“If you see a Priest who celebrates the Holy Mass unworthily then say nothing about him,
rather tell it to Me alone! I stand beside him on the altar!” “Oh pray much for my priests,
that they’ll love purity above all, that they’ll celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with
pure hands and heart. Certainly the Holy Sacrifice is one and the same even when it’s
celebrated by an unworthy priest, but the graces called down upon the people is not the
same!”

Mary, Queen of Clergy, pray for them.

Psalm 2:1-3 Why do the nations conspire,
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds asunder,
and cast their cords from us.”

4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord has them in derision.
 
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If it was good enough for the good shepherd to leave his flock to find a stray, surely it is good enough for a priest.

Ron Hume.
 
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If anyone had to walk in a Priest’s shoes for just one day; they would feel very differently about what Priests do all day with their time & functions. I have worked in a Church for 40+ years. I’ve seen what their all consuming day involves. Their day involves more that just what occurs within the Church walls, Rectory or school. Ask any Priest who’s been called at 3A or 4A in the morning for a Sacramental emergency; if their not involved in community service. If that not evangelizing, I don’t know what is. Enough with the questioning of the service of Priests. God bless all our Priests.
 
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We laity have a duty.

Once upon a time, we had convents and monasteries and lay preachers and evangelizing brothers, missionary sisters, nurse sisters, and slum priests out on the streets. The Dominicans are known for their street ministry, or were, back in the days before the industrialization.

They are the petrol to the Church’s ‘mission’ as it is. They still exist, and bring countless souls to the Church right this very day. Do not discount any contribution of the priesthood and the religious orders.

But in our world, the Devil has been fighting against the Church and since the Enlightenment, many demons have taken prominence over mainstream society, preventing evangelization in many cases. But we, the laity, have a duty to share the love of Jesus - what’s stopping you?
 
Well the catholic educational system that I was in did not provide a deciple ship program that was successful.

I have met many people that continued their education at a Pentecostal. Or word of faith. Assembly of God.
Prodenstant … Oh no!!!

But catholics do have the best communion service!!!

Why. Because catholics don’t get any smarter.and
Catholic fellowship is lacking.
Go to mass. Go to confession go home
 
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ronhume said:
If Catholic priests continue to preach to the faithful in our churches, rather than the community at large, our faith will continue to diminish dramatically
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We laity have a duty
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Actually, yes it is more the laity’s job to proclaim Christ in the world. I wrote the below for a Sacraments class that I took. It tells how Confirmation strengthens the laity to take Christ’s message into the world. I thought that I would share it with you since it seemed to be germane to the discussion.

The ascended Christ, as the High Priest, shares his own holiness with men so that the Blessed Trinity can dwell in them by grace. For his part, the Holy Spirit has both an invisible and a visible mission in the Church and in the world to impart the holiness that Christ shares on all of humanity. The invisible mission of the Holy Spirit includes an outpouring of sanctifying grace especially during the reception of the sacraments. The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2: 1-3) is the manifestation of the indwelling of the Blessed Trinity in men and is part of the Spirit’s visible mission. One of the results of the descent of the Holy Spirit, manifested with tongues as of fire, was that the Apostles changed their focus from being just inward looking and started reaching out to others in a most dramatic fashion (Acts 2: 4-47). In effect, they went from being inward looking, as would a child, to being more outward looking, as would a mature adult.

In a similar way, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at confirmation gives power to the recipient to get him outside of himself to more fully participate in the Church’s mission to bring the fruit of Christ’s priestly actions to all of mankind. St. Thomas Aquinas explains this change in focus as a spiritual maturing of the recipient, which helps perfect him. Those who are only baptized he likens as babes while the confirmed are mature (Summa Theologicae. III, 72, 5, ad 1). This maturation is because the sanctifying grace received in confirmation is for growth and stability in righteousness (ST. III, 72, 7, ad 1).

The Church’s mission is to proclaim God’s word and to administer the sacraments; it is directed towards action. The Church shares in Christ’s mission of priest, prophet, and king and we likewise share that mission when we are baptized. However, as St. Thomas writes, we are conformed to Christ by the reception of confirmation and we receive a fullness of grace (ST. III, 72, 1, ad 4). Again we are made more perfect. The reception, therefore, gives us the necessary “tools,” as it were, to further Christ and His Church’s mission. Further, St. Thomas explains, as the Church is directed towards action, those who are confirmed are also directed toward sacred action (ST. III, 72, 5). The confirmed have the task of bringing Christ’s priestly actions into the world. In this way, they participate in His priestly activities and those activities of His sacrament, the Church. St Thomas explains this as the confirmed communicating “his actions to others.” (ST, III, q. 72, a 2).

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This participation in the mission can take many forms. It not only includes activities such as teaching religious education classes, which is more directly an aspect of the preaching mission of the Church, but it also means bringing Christ’s mission to the market place, the workplace, anywhere that one interacts with the world, with others. It means living the spiritual and corporeal works of mercy in such a way that it can be an example for others. It can also mean taking an office or position in the secular world to direct the world to be more Christlike. Usually one will focus on one or two aspects of Christ’s message and making those aspects one’s life work. The confirmed’s mission is different from the ministerial priesthood since, in a certain aspect, the ministerial priesthood is more directed to work within the Church itself. It is the duty of the confirmed to come out from the Church to reach the world.

The Scriptures tell us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (Matthew 6: 33). The confirmed’s duty, therefore, is to proclaim Christ’s message of loving God and neighbor (Matthew 22: 37-40) to the world. It is important that they do this because His message can get lost in the hustle and bustle of the workaday world.

Blessings
 
ronhume said:
If Catholic priests continue to preach to the faithful in our churches, rather than the community at large, our faith will continue to diminish dramatically. Priests are the only people with the knowledge of theology who are able to administer the apostolic church. I believe they are in gross neglect of their duty in this regard.
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your statement is not even close to being TRUE:blush:

I receive daily a half dozen or so SOLIDLY Catholic Blogs that ar not limited to Catholic Priest; although very often they are the ones being quoted.

The RCC has a very active, informed and qualified group of Laity who too are passing on our precious Catholic Faith

God Bless you
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