[Magdalen] Sermon

[ME Michaud]

I was on retreat once with a priest who wanted a new recliner.
The parish council had refused him.
He talked about this disappointment constantly, for the whole week.
That and his miniature poodle, whom (or which) he missed most sorely.

One of the other retreatants was a Jesuit psychiatrist,
we kinda hit it off,
and we would sit and listen to this misery sorta leaning against each other.

A strange week.
-M


On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 8/8/2016 12:26:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com writes:
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> I  believe we were being pointed to
> digging a lot deeper.  The  nay-sayers pretty much all wanted soft kind
> words for whatever  reason.   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> Reminds me of a memorable sermon at the Tridentine Latin Rite church,
> a location not noted for great sermons.
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> On a Maundy Thursday, with its multiplicity of sermon topics straight
> out of the scripture for the day (Institution of the Eucharist; the  giving
> of the Peace, etc.) we got, instead, an angry diatribe from the
> assistant priest during which he repeatedly used the phrase, "...and
> you people just don't give a damn."
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> Apparently the parish council had turned down his request for some
> improvements to the parsonage, and he took this as a personal insult.
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> It was "deja vu all over again," for me because I endured a sermon  with
> similar tone at Christ Church Cathedral, Eau Claire, also by the
> assistant,
> in which the same "...and you people just don't give a damn," was
> repeated several times in his sermon.  I've forgotten what he didn't  like,
> frankly.
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> David S.
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