scared:
This one:
First the Priest, I should clarify that I was told to take a time out from the church until I was finished counselling then come back once I was totally healed.
He has no right to tell you anything like that. That’s just crazy, scared. It makes no sense. It’s theologically, morally, and intellectually wrong on every level.
You are under NO obligation to obey that priest.
Why do you do as he says?
You have an absolute right to go to Mass, to pray before the Tabernacle, and to be a part of the community.
This is positively outrageous.
Your being in counseling has nothing whatsoever to do with your going to Mass.
scared:
That would be fine if it were a few weeks or a couple of months, but this will more than likely last a year or more. On top of that I was not dispensed from mass thus ever time I don’t go puts me in mortal sin. I do not disrupt mass, I sit in the back, do not converse unless spoken to. I have spoke to someone in the diocese about this. The problem being that although he would receive correction he would not be removed from the parish and there is no priest close enough to have him put under. The concern from the individual is for me and what may happen without him being supervised.
I’m afraid I do not understand. Has this priest physically harmed you? What can he do to you? Chase you out of the church? What for? Go to the parish council and complain.
Does the diocese agree with you that what he’s doing is wrong? Write to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops:
diocese-edmundston.ca/canadian-conference-of-bishops/canadian.conference.of.catholic.bishops.htm
I’m sorry, but this sounds quite sick. Something is terribly wrong. Is the priest mentally unstable? Is he out of his mind, scared?
What is the person at the diocese afraid he will do to you “unsupervised”?
What do the other parishioners think of him?
I really don’t get it, but you do not have to obey that priest. You do NOT. You obey Christ and your bishop. Did the diocese say you should stay away? Why?
Look, if you have a crazy priest who accosts you and tries to get you to leave, call the police.
scared:
Thus for now it is easier to let things stay as they are, even though the cross for me is great, it may be greater to take action.
What on earth are you afraid he will do to you??? I just don’t get this whole thing. Please explain it, if you can. We don’t know who or where you are. Canada’s a big country.
scared:
As for specific questions the biggest is God’s existence. Up until August of last year I never only had vague doubts about his existence. That changed when the realization of what was happening, of course being punted by my own parish priest didn’t help. I keep thinking I should have faith, I did before, but it is gone. I don’t know enough about doctrines. When I went through RCIA I was so scared that the first 12 weeks I remember nothing, but shaking. The priest then realized the problem and attempted to help some, but he did all he could and that was a lot to keep me in the program. So I am very poor catholism. I am looking I guess for a reason to stay, I have a tonne of reasons to leave. None to stay, many will say because God sent his son to die for us. Who is God anyway, who is Jesus? I know the story, but right now that is all it is.
scared
Keep calling out with your question to God, scared. I know how you feel. Keep crying out for His touch. I know exactly how you feel because your words really resonate with me and were my own not long ago. They will be mine again, I am sure. But the bedrock is in us, I think, and though we cannot feel it sometimes or think we don’t really know it, we still do. Keep calling out to Him.
God bless you!