[Magdalen] Down-hearted

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I wonder if the priest has any positive vibrations at all from the
congregation.  It has to be a nasty job if he is just dismantling
everything the parish values. Has the bishop any idea of what the values of
the parish are?  Does he wish that this form of parish would just go away
and stop bothering him?

Sad excuses for people under orders.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 17/08/2015 22:20, ME Michaud wrote:
>
>> I am remembering a friend who was sent as interim to a
>> struggling parish with the Bishop's words ringing in his
>> ears:
>>
>> "Fix it or kill it."
>>
>
> I have gone to parishes which were thought to have no hope but have worked
> with the people and the tradition I found there to try to work out a viable
> future.  Yes, there were difficulties and conflict but they found a future
> which respected their past.  "Fix it" should never mean "make it something
> that denies its essence".
>
> Roger
>