tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652940417109665141.post909419997138886731..comments2024-03-27T11:42:13.364+10:00Comments on JungleWatch: THE PEOPLE WERE HUNGRY. THEY STILL ARE. Frenchiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189311368021711422noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5652940417109665141.post-37312139593566848592014-05-24T18:11:43.291+10:002014-05-24T18:11:43.291+10:00Thank you Tim, you took the exact words from our m...Thank you Tim, you took the exact words from our mouths -- words we've wanted to say all along: PLEASE BE PASTORAL AS OUR PASTORS. PLEASE BE OUR SPIRITUAL NURTURERS! We don't need or want CEO's; we need Pastors in our Parishes! <br /><br /> Yes, thanks again Tim, because:<br />- We direly need regularly scheduled WEEKLY CONFESSIONS heard in the "Confessional Room or Confessional Box" -- not "CEO-style" appointments or brief stints and rushed moments before Mass. <br />- We need at least an hour of weekly Eucharistic Adoration for spiritual re-invigoration -- not just on The First Fridays of the month. <br />- We direly need our Pastors to visit our neighborhoods regularly -- personally visiting, personally encouraging and personally inviting those of us especially, who don’t see the need to attend Sunday Mass regularly or have fallen away.<br />- We need regularly-scheduled Bible and Catechism study – because to know our Faith is to know our God!<br />- We need Pastoral involvement, Pastoral encouragement and Pastoral drive to awaken and instill a direly-needed Catholic vibrancy within our Parishes.<br /><br />The NCW is not an alternative nor is it a match to the exciting, awe-inspiring and comforting Authentic Catholic Faith Teachings and Practices; not a match to the beauty and the sacramentality, the solemnity and the holiness of our Authentic Catholic Church and Faith, which is very valid and very relevant and always will be because it was founded and instituted by Christ, HIMSELF!<br /><br />If our Pastors provide those very basic Catechetical and spiritual needs; if our Pastors buildup a community kinship and Parish fellowship – they will come! <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com