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BryanWinter
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Hello. My name is Bryan and i’m an amatuer writer who essentially considers himself Agnostic. I have always had this idea for a book in my head, and it deeply involves knolege of the catholic faith as it takes place in the first person view , from the perspective of an old priest, who runs a run down parish in boston, who hears a facinating confession from another man who also appears to be a preist.
While not religious myself, i have always been facinated with that particular human emotion, how it inspires devotion to causes and ideals. The theme of the book, is essentailly that faith and compassion can take many forms, that men who are good can appear evil, and men who are evil can appear good and most of us generally fall somewhere in the gray. I don’t want to give away the plot to the world, in case i ever publish (you’ll hafta read it heh heh) but i certainly want to be faithful to how the catholic church works, and hear it from people directly invovled.
I am wondering if there are any preists or people close to the workings of a particular parish who would be willing to answer questions about the inner workings of the church at the lowest level possible as i write this.
It takes place in parish in Inner City Boston, ministering to a failing flock. Its psudo modern , taking place immediately after the scandal with cardinal law, and where many people are questioning their faith and devotion to the church. Its ministered by Father Jerimiah O’Brand, a native irishmen of Southie Boston, who left behind a life of sin and gluttony (he was a heavy drinker who found god and left it behind him) Another man comes to him in the late of night, and asks him to hear his confession, but this man is another priest. but something is wrong with him immediately … something that doesn’t fit a priestly charactiture. He hears the confession, which is essentially a facinating story about how he came to find God. He was confessing to Father O’brand for a lie, for the secret that he kept with him for a long time and finally broke him apart.
This project is in the formative stages, but i would like someone to help me get the inside perspective on catholic life, from the perspective of someone who deals with it daily (ideally from the perspective of a priest or like person)
Is there anyone here who would be willing to help me, or point me in the right direction for the answers i need? i want it to be geniune, so that if a preist ever picks up my book, it would seem real to him. I suppose i should also mention ( and one can’t be to careful in this divided country of ours between the secular and non-secular) That i don’t intend to slander the church in any way, the focus is on the people , not the institution.
Thank you.
While not religious myself, i have always been facinated with that particular human emotion, how it inspires devotion to causes and ideals. The theme of the book, is essentailly that faith and compassion can take many forms, that men who are good can appear evil, and men who are evil can appear good and most of us generally fall somewhere in the gray. I don’t want to give away the plot to the world, in case i ever publish (you’ll hafta read it heh heh) but i certainly want to be faithful to how the catholic church works, and hear it from people directly invovled.
I am wondering if there are any preists or people close to the workings of a particular parish who would be willing to answer questions about the inner workings of the church at the lowest level possible as i write this.
It takes place in parish in Inner City Boston, ministering to a failing flock. Its psudo modern , taking place immediately after the scandal with cardinal law, and where many people are questioning their faith and devotion to the church. Its ministered by Father Jerimiah O’Brand, a native irishmen of Southie Boston, who left behind a life of sin and gluttony (he was a heavy drinker who found god and left it behind him) Another man comes to him in the late of night, and asks him to hear his confession, but this man is another priest. but something is wrong with him immediately … something that doesn’t fit a priestly charactiture. He hears the confession, which is essentially a facinating story about how he came to find God. He was confessing to Father O’brand for a lie, for the secret that he kept with him for a long time and finally broke him apart.
This project is in the formative stages, but i would like someone to help me get the inside perspective on catholic life, from the perspective of someone who deals with it daily (ideally from the perspective of a priest or like person)
Is there anyone here who would be willing to help me, or point me in the right direction for the answers i need? i want it to be geniune, so that if a preist ever picks up my book, it would seem real to him. I suppose i should also mention ( and one can’t be to careful in this divided country of ours between the secular and non-secular) That i don’t intend to slander the church in any way, the focus is on the people , not the institution.
Thank you.
) of being paid to get training in stewardship, only to have those who paid for it smear it into mud. I have taught math to reluctant students, and I have worked as youth crisis counselor. In addition, I worked in the Third Synod of the diocesse of Wichita, when for the first time in history the Catholic Church actually asked for opinions of her people here – and got to do data entry of literally thousand of candid, anonymous comments into the database used for the bishop to discern and promulgate pastoral priorities.