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Petertherock
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We had a fill in priest and with all do respect this priest is a bit strange. He seems like the type that would do a clown mass if givin the opportunity. He is a very nice personable man and I am sure a lot of his problem is his age.
First of all, he remembers your name and face even after a year of not seeing you. So he does have a good memory. But during the opening procession he stops at almost everyone and shakes hands and says hi to them and talks to people. Also, he is off the altar more than he is on the altar. He begins the Mass, does the homily from the aisle, as well as the Our Father, and the shake of peace.
Today he forgot the Great Amen after the consecration but he did go back to it. He forgot to get the bread and wine out for the consecration, the Eucharistic Ministers had to get everything for him during the Mass.
Then his homily was kind of strange. The message was good but he was talking about divine inspirations and he said he had one in the 4th grade when he couldn’t think of an answer to his test and all of a sudden a voice said to him the name of the person that was the answer and he got the answer right. He told everyone he was expelled in the 6th grade and that he shouldn’t have called the sister that name.
But as you all probably know, the gospel reading was when Jesus asked Peter who He was and Peter replied that Jesus was the Son of God. Then Jesus made Peter the Rock, and Keeper of the keys.
He said that people get caught up in the theology of this passage and some Protestants think that Peters title died with Peter and other Protestants believe that the title was passed on to their Bishops, and of course as Catholics we believe it was passed on to the Popes. But he said people focus too much on that theology of what Peter was and he doesn’t give a hoot about Peter. It’s all about Jesus! He said that the whole meaning of that passage is who Jesus is to us.
Then at the end of his Homily he asked a couple that was visiting from Massachusetts if they had sermons like that at their parish. He then went on and said, they probably weren’t even listening, maybe I should repeat the homily. Then the priest said, oh, he doesn’t have his hearing aid. He’s probably better off!
I just don’t know, I have been to Masses where the priest have made a tasteful joke during a homily but I think he just takes his comments way too far. Like I said, he is a good friendly, personable priest but I think his actions are pretty much liturgical abuses a lot of the time.
First of all, he remembers your name and face even after a year of not seeing you. So he does have a good memory. But during the opening procession he stops at almost everyone and shakes hands and says hi to them and talks to people. Also, he is off the altar more than he is on the altar. He begins the Mass, does the homily from the aisle, as well as the Our Father, and the shake of peace.
Today he forgot the Great Amen after the consecration but he did go back to it. He forgot to get the bread and wine out for the consecration, the Eucharistic Ministers had to get everything for him during the Mass.
Then his homily was kind of strange. The message was good but he was talking about divine inspirations and he said he had one in the 4th grade when he couldn’t think of an answer to his test and all of a sudden a voice said to him the name of the person that was the answer and he got the answer right. He told everyone he was expelled in the 6th grade and that he shouldn’t have called the sister that name.
But as you all probably know, the gospel reading was when Jesus asked Peter who He was and Peter replied that Jesus was the Son of God. Then Jesus made Peter the Rock, and Keeper of the keys.
He said that people get caught up in the theology of this passage and some Protestants think that Peters title died with Peter and other Protestants believe that the title was passed on to their Bishops, and of course as Catholics we believe it was passed on to the Popes. But he said people focus too much on that theology of what Peter was and he doesn’t give a hoot about Peter. It’s all about Jesus! He said that the whole meaning of that passage is who Jesus is to us.
Then at the end of his Homily he asked a couple that was visiting from Massachusetts if they had sermons like that at their parish. He then went on and said, they probably weren’t even listening, maybe I should repeat the homily. Then the priest said, oh, he doesn’t have his hearing aid. He’s probably better off!
I just don’t know, I have been to Masses where the priest have made a tasteful joke during a homily but I think he just takes his comments way too far. Like I said, he is a good friendly, personable priest but I think his actions are pretty much liturgical abuses a lot of the time.