Priestly Duties - MEN OF THE CHURCH - Vol. 1 - Carnal Plus

Serving here, at St. Peter's has been a wonderful, if often confusing experience. What happens behind the scenes (as it were) is so very different from what the congregants see on Sunday morning, or any other day, for that matter. I don’t really think that they would approve, but I’m not going to complain myself. We do what good we can for the community, as much as any priest can, and we give the people the figure that they need to look up to. That alone is a service, just being there as Christ’s representative.We do give up a lot for the faithful, and our community. Being a priest and role model is a 24/7 job. We never have a day off. We get days of personal time, but we don’t go out in public without our black suits and collars. Even being invited to a parishioner's house for dinner, or chaperoning a bowling night for the cathedral youth group, we still have to take care to be “priestly.” Surely, we can’t be blamed for wanting to simply be men sometimes. Men with desires and needs, hung ers, even.That is ...More