Is it right to follow a favourite priest?

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Like follow this priest for confession, Mass etc.

Say this priest is my uncle or have some special relationship (biological or spiritual) with me? Or a good friend?
 
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I have people who think that priests should only be contacted when in emergency, and should not be followed. And that we should only see priests as well when they need our help in anything. Anything more is a transgression.

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I’m not entirely sure what you mean by follow here.
 
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Plenty of people have priest friends but preexists HATE the groupies. Don’t ever become on e of those. It puts them in a terrible position.
 
Follow as in attend the priest’s services and ask him spiritual questions.
 
Why would something as simple as that be bad?
It’s when it goes BEYOND that it becomes a problem.
 
Well, going to a specific priest who you trust for confession and guidance and such is often a good idea so in itself, I don’t see anything wrong with that.

As pianistclare said above, going beyond that may be problematic. I of course don’t know your situation at all so I can’t say.
 
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MY parents say I am obsessed with a priest… just by thinking about him sometimes, mostly what he would say if I do something wrong, wanting to go to him for confession and attending his services.
 
Is this the same priest your parents don’t want you to see in your other threads? Honestly, you are beginning to sound a bit obsessed.
 
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You mean on instagram? If he plugged it in the Church bulletin, that’s fair game fam. I know a priest in my diocese who posts reminders on ig for people (cough youth) so they don’t forget to go to confession. Now if you want to follow him in real life, I would suggest not doing so out of general respect of space. I’m not quite sure what you mean by “for confession, mass, etc”.
 
Having a priest or sister as a family member gives one more access. My priest would take his nieces and nephews to the local theme park, just like any fun, single uncle. My friend gets to go visit her aunt and stay for free in nyc at the convent. My great aunt is a sister and when the convent allows comes to family gatherings and grabs a hot dog and beer.

Vocation does not mean family ties dissolve.

Nor does it mean that non family gets the right to claim clergy as their family.
 
Thinking about him, wanting to go to him for confession, wondering what he will say if you do something wrong…I don’t do have those thoughts about my priest(s.)
 
That’s cos I have no friends lol

And my parents told me to not trust friends
 
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Like follow this priest for confession, Mass etc.

Say this priest is my uncle or have some special relationship (biological or spiritual) with me? Or a good friend?
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Follow…like stalking them?

Okay, I have a friend who is not a priest. But, really good in Spiritual Direction, guidance, and One Holy Catholic Faithful witness to the Church. His views, the books I’ve been invited to read, and Biblical Studies he has presented, have all caused me to always reach out and ask him for more. Even emailing him quite a bit. If he had a blog, I’d follow and read him. But then again, I like Kevin O’Brian’s blogs (Word Incorporated.) He’s a great saint. A good actor. He plays a really good Father Brown, though he is American. He’s an excellent actor.

If your Uncle or “close relation” (i.e. family member or friend) is a priest. And he has a gift of Spiritual Direction. Maybe that is your calling. That God is working through him to speak to you. Now, not that it’s a necessarily religious order calling. But still, nonetheless, you are being called doing something God is calling you to do. So, no, it’s not wrong to follow your favorite priest. But, as I’ve learned going to Confession to different priest’s. God may work with one priest in a much more stronger process for you to grow. But yet may have a gift with another priest to help you order your life in a way that God finds pleasing with you. In that, He gives each a treasure, a gift from Heaven. And for you to see that in other priest’s. To witness to what God has done, does, and did. For that those gifts could be from the onset of what Christ did in Calvary, I’d say it’s to give you greater appreciation. And find God’s love even wider, deeper, and immense. Around you.
 
I once belonged to a parish that had an extremely popular priest. Everyone loved him and the parish grew and was incredibly active. Then the priest had a crisis of conscience, left the church, and because a minister in a protestant denomination. His leaving virtually devastated the parish and many parishioners were lost or went elsewhere.
Following a priest by becoming overly fond of him personally can be wonderful for one’s faith and enthusiasm for a parish. But it can have a severe downside too.
 
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Like what downsides? Could name me some examples please?
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“His leaving virtually devastated the parish and many parishioners were lost or went elsewhere.”

If you become to attached and he is transferred to another parish, then what?
 
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