tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post5259624135998798963..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: "Be what I say"Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-54768222295085501922018-05-01T15:00:28.716+01:002018-05-01T15:00:28.716+01:00All the Catholic kids I know, even the ones not re...All the Catholic kids I know, even the ones not reared traditionally, like to see priests wearing cassocks or other priest garb during daily life. They like to be able to go to Confession. They like to kneel. They like to be challenged to live a Catholic life, and to have the bar raised.<br /><br />I go to a university parish where the priest (my own age) started out super-liberal, but has gottenBansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-5778967214610141282018-04-26T17:59:17.681+01:002018-04-26T17:59:17.681+01:00Young people, in the main, are not 'daring'...Young people, in the main, are not 'daring'. They are very strictly conformist - in dress, in attitudes, in musical tastes and so on. The idea of standing out from the crowd of their contemporaries quite frankly horrifies them. <br /><br />And there is nothing more pathetic than to see octogenarians, who are assumed to have accumulated a measure of wisdom over the years, invoking a John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-83729453419910453362018-04-26T17:55:15.140+01:002018-04-26T17:55:15.140+01:00Well, I suppose we could point out what old St. Pa...Well, I suppose we could point out what old St. Paul says: "So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter." (2 Thes 2:15)<br /><br />Yet might it be that the "brethren" St. Paul was writing to/about may not be the youth of Thessalonica, but to the old and rigid of that particular church?<br /><br />Catechist Kevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04692973475298278544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14731752080130566632018-04-26T14:33:45.419+01:002018-04-26T14:33:45.419+01:00Our Holy Father seems to miss the fact that what y...Our Holy Father seems to miss the fact that what young people know as 'it's always been done this way' is more or less what he advocates for. Therfore his calls to question it... Well, he might be surprised what is going to be considered daring and adventurous by the Catholic youth. Kamil M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09377515258398791474noreply@blogger.com