This evening DH and I went out for coffee and drove by the church where there had been a wedding this afternoon. I noticed that the windows were all open so I came home to get my keys and went back to close and lock the windows.
The church was a mess, water bottles, pop cans and coffee cups everywhere, hymnals on the floor, garbage cans overflowing.
Then from the back of the church I spotted it, the ciborium sitting outside the Tabernacle. Hoping against hope I rushed to the front to find a full ciborium sitting there. There was no mistaking the fact that the Blessed Sacrament had just been left out after Communion. I got the key and placed the ciborium in the Tabernacle.
I’m now so angry I don’t know what to do. I can’t believe my pastor would be so careless. First he tells his superior that it’s my responsibility to see that he has the pre-nuptial investigation done right – when the heck did I get ordained? – and now he can’t even be trusted to treat the Blessed Sacrament properly.
He’s our pastor and categorically refuses to attend a wedding reception for anyone from our parish. Today’s wedding was for a couple from the parish for which he’s administrator and guess where he was – yes, the reception. Guess he was so excited about that that he couldn’t wait long enough to replace the Blessed Sacrament in the Tabernacle.
Color me OUTRAGED!
