My friend's brother is a priest. He is commonly invited to people's houses to "bless their house." HOWEVER, he had visited this one house to speak to the family. When he came home, he told his sister how horribly decorated it was, and that she had to go with him when he went back to bless it, so she could see how tacky it was. So she did, they told the family that they were going somewhere together so that's why she was there. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? These poor people thought he was there being kind, yet he was there to make fun of their house. I'm just so upset by this? How am I supposed to keep the faith when things like this happen?
2007-09-29 16:04:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not looking for perfection, I'm looking for common decency at a minimum. This isn't simply a matter of a priest being "human" and thinking something is tacky. He's entitled to his opinion. It's a matter of this very sweet elderly couple, proud of a new home, and inviting a man over that they think is there to be truly spiritual and he, of all professions!, being a priest, has completely deceived them. That's horrific.
I'm also rattled by this probably because there were other issues with our prior priest - much worse than this - so I had gotten "settled" and comfortable with this one, and now I feel jolted again. It's disheartening and very very hurtful.
2007-09-29 16:23:22 · update #1
I've been a religious person all my life but I'm telling you every week that goes by it gets harder and harder to take part in organized religion. I know your story isn't something deadly, but still you hold your priest to a standard that is above mockery and deceit. Him taking the sister to go mock someone's house, while they just blindly think he is coming with the noblest of intentions is just disgusting to me.
2007-09-29 16:09:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is your friend's brother a priest in the modern "Catholic" Church? If so, he's not a priest at all. After Vatican II, Paul VI (an antipope and heretic) changed the ordination rites so that no priests could be ordained. So there are very few actual priests left in the modern church that claims to be Catholic.
As a traditional Catholic (practicing Catholicism the way it was before 1962 when heresies crept in), I know true ordained priests that were ordained by the old and true rite. They don't act like that.
That is very sad someone (even if he isn't a real priest) would do something like that. Especially in a position of authority.
2007-09-29 23:10:54 · answer #2 · answered by oremus_fratres 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah, some people's tastes are bad, but I usually don't make fun of them or make any kind of comment, although when the house is beautiful, I have to watch out that I don't start envying them, so I actually like the ugly ones. They make me feel like my hovel isn't so bad.
If he makes you mad though, talk to Jesus about it when you go to Holy Communion next time. You'll see instant results. There was this one priest that was so pompous I thought that I would puke to hear his sermons. I rolled my eyes so much I think they permanently got stuck in the raised position for a week. So I asked God about it, because it was getting to be rather infuriating. And God answered. Boy, did He ever. That priest was gone in 2 weeks.
2007-09-29 23:12:11 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you really think that a "priest" has some kind of special dispensation from being a jerk?
All you need to do is look at the behavior of some Catholic Priests to see that many of them are as screwed up as the worst in our society.
2007-09-29 23:11:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look, it really doesn't matter if he is a priest, or the head usher. It just wasn't right. It wasn't right for his sister, your friend to participate either. You should be just as upset with her.
As to your faith, if it is so shallow that the actions of one individual at a specific time will shake you, what does that say it is built upon? We will always have opportunity to be disappointed by people in our lives, but never Jesus.
2007-09-29 23:14:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
"How am I supposed to keep the faith when things like this happen?"
So, you are going to completely abandon a faith because of the rudeness of a priest? The priest was very rude, which is contrary to the teachings of the catholic Church.
If you join another church, will you abandon that faith if one of it's ministers does something rude? Are you looking for perfection in God or man?
2007-09-29 23:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Big deal. So the house was badly decorated and he showed it to his sister. He still blessed the house. It was probably hideous.
What's the big deal. He wasn't making fun of them, just the bad decorating. Come on get some kind of thicker skin.
2007-09-29 23:26:59 · answer #7 · answered by brando4755 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is one of the most lowest thing I've heard. You don't need to keep the faith in accordance with a particular person. If it doesn't feel ok, then try following your religion without following men. That's the thing that I love about my religion, we don't have such men in our lives nor rituals.
I hope you will feel better soon. Don't care what others do.
2007-09-29 23:07:59 · answer #8 · answered by Zifikos 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would have never had him over in the first place, but if he made one rude remark about the decorating I would have shown him the door right off the bat.
2007-09-29 23:17:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This kind of person could be found not only in church but also in mosque and temple. In other words, Hypocrite is exist every where in all society and community
2007-09-29 23:12:27 · answer #10 · answered by mad 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋