tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6295310269019332101.post3996161284285507793..comments2023-05-25T01:09:31.155-07:00Comments on Santissimo Sacramento: "I just don't get it. I mean, you're such a smart guy..."Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05323857407002450529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6295310269019332101.post-88962307479052145192009-10-22T12:55:34.718-07:002009-10-22T12:55:34.718-07:00Haha...glad it turned out so well.Haha...glad it turned out so well.Colinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05323857407002450529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6295310269019332101.post-18227003456529134702009-10-19T15:46:37.184-07:002009-10-19T15:46:37.184-07:00While there are other great points you made here M...While there are other great points you made here Mr. Beckman, I think being present to the people is the most telling point of all.<br /><br />Some are not fond of our desire to wear clerics (or cassock for that matter) in public. Your experience proved to be of great value. You excited an interest in the faith and planted the seed of further study and contemplation. Good Job and God Bless you!<br /><br />When Pope Benedict XVI announced a "year for priests", he called for a young generation of priests who embrace a "correct" interpretation of the Second Vatican Council. He called for them to be "present, identifiable and recognizable -- for their judgment of faith, their personal virtues and their attire -- in the fields of culture and charity which have always been at the heart of the church's mission,"<br /><br />Just as an added note:<br /><br />The Directory for the Ministry and Life of Priests, prepared by the Congregation for the Clergy and approved by Pope John Paul II on January 31, 1994, says:<br /><br />In a secularized and tendentiously materialistic society, where even the external signs of sacred and supernatural realities tend to be disappearing, the necessity is particularly felt that the priest-man of God, dispenser of His mysteries-should be recognizable in the sight of the community, even through the clothing he wears, as an unmistakable sign of his dedication and of his identity as a recipient of a public ministry. The priest should be recognizable above all through his behavior, but also through his dressing in a way that renders immediately perceptible to all the faithful, even to all men, his identity and his belonging to God and to the Church.<br /><br />Read more at:<br />http://romancatholicvocations.blogspot.com/2008/01/visible-sign-roman-collar.html<br /><br />http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/letters/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20090616_anno-sacerdotale_en.html<br /><br />http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901200.htmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154578997022240628noreply@blogger.com