22 Year old and violated update #2greenspun.com : LUSENET : Catholic : One Thread |
Hey everyone, well thank you for all who put in their prayers this last month...A lot has happend to me since I last updated everyone on my happenings with that priest...Well the first thing you should all know is that I have not seen him since that day when he hurt me...I kept away from him like many of you and some other priests have suggested I do...I am no longer attending that church, I am now fully a member of the other catholic church down the street from my house (Nearer to my house by the way)....I have met A LOT of people at this other church and I feel 10x's better at this other church...At this other church I feel a REAL sense of community...It is so obvious how much the people care for each other....Even though the congragation is big, people still know each other by name and they are sooooo friendly...I have met with the Msgr. of the church and as it turns out, he knows the of the priest who hurt me....the Msgr. and I have been talking and I feel comfortable with him, I have even been going to confession every Saturday instead of every other 2 or 3 weeks or so because of the comfort I feel....Plus I have my childhood friends who also go to this other church, I guess I can put all of what happpend to me last month behind me......I am still hurting from it, but at least I am where I feel happy.....
-- JACOB (FLAKE777@HOTMAIL.COM), June 09, 2003
Good for you, Jacob. May God keep you from this type of situation again. Enjoy life again.
-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonzalez@srla.org), June 09, 2003.
excellent outcome!
-- Ian (ib@vertifgo.com), June 09, 2003.
Jacob, that is tremendous news! May blessings continue to flow down upon you!Gail
-- Gail (rothfarms@socket.net), June 09, 2003.
Meanwhile Jacob what has happened to the accused priest? I may have missed something and not folowed all the story but has the priest suffered any consequences for his actions and benn removed from the priesthood? Your happiness is important but its the saftey of other young men I am concerned about. Any man who behaves like this doesnt deserve to be a priest. As a teacher of young adults Id lose my job and would nver be able to teach again if I carried on like this with a female student. No second chances, no "rehabilitaion" no counselling, just accountability and transparencey and the students well being as paramount. The fact a the priest commited a homosexual act is even more unnatural and evil.
-- Kiwi (csisherwood@hotmail.com), June 10, 2003.
I'm so glad!
-- Catherine Ann (catfishbird@yahoo.ca), June 10, 2003.
For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.... And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient [unseemly]. Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them. As usual, St. Paul minces no words. While the Novus Ordo bishops clothe their malefactions in vaguely Christian vocabulary, there is nothing Christian, and certainly nothing Catholic, about what they have done to destroy Roman Catholic faith and morals. And what should Catholics do in regard to these Novus Ordo bishops: obey them? follow them? praise them? No, rather, I commend to you the words of Our Lord: "going forth from thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them" (Mark 6:11/DRV).
-- Carlos DeAngelo (Carlos@appleand eve.com), June 21, 2003.
GOAT. In God's name, we say to you: Take your loving counsel where it's appreciated. Goat City.
-- eugene c. chavez (loschavez@pacbell.net), June 22, 2003.