[Magdalen] Location, Location, Location.

[Jay Weigel]

Well, Sibyl, I've told this before, but you may not have been here at the
time. My late son's best friend through elementary, middle, and the first
couple of years of high school was an only child who went off to Oral
Roberts U. He'd been raised in some or other very right-of-center
evangelical outfit and was a nice kid. Anyway, while at ORU, he converted
to Catholicism, which shocked hell out of his parents......and about a year
later, felt a very strong call to the priesthood! His mother said to me.
"Well, if that's where God wants him, who am I to argue?" (His parents did
not, however, convert and AFAIK are still whatever they were.) He is now
Fr. Tony, OP.

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> We have an interesting RCC priest here (I hope he's still doing okay,
> haven't heard anything about him very recently, but then I wouldn't
> necessarily hear).  He started out in one of the Pentecostal churches here
> (I'm pretty sure, but one of the seriously Protestant churches like
> Baptist: not my own Campbellite, or I'd have remembered) and married, then
> converted to TEC, went to Seminary, and became a Priest, while raising
> several children, then converted to RCC, and they Received him as a Priest,
> somehow letting him bring his wife along.  He is or was officially attached
> to the college 16 miles north of me, mainly, but is in great demand in all
> the parishes around (they seem to sort of want to keep him and his wife out
> of parish work).  Both he and his wife have said in interviews that they
> they do believe that a Priest should _not_ be married, but they aren't
> about to break up their own family that came into that Church as a package
> deal.  He's also a motorcycle lover, and last time I noticed, does an
> annual "Blessing of the Bikes" for some kind of recurrent event.
>
>
>
> On 6/5/16 1:19 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> I would guess many of them leave the RCC entirely as they are not able to
>> exercise their ministries there. Likewise also monks and nuns who leave
>> and
>> marry?
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Charles Wohlers <
>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> She was speaking of RC priests who have left the priesthood so as to get
>>> married - not retired priests. We have a friend who was an RC (Paulist)
>>> priest who got married, and then had a successful career as an Episcopal
>>> priest in the Dio. of Mass.
>>>
>>> Of course, allowing RC priests to get married and continue to serve would
>>> solve their clergy shortage in a flash.
>>>
>>> Chad Wohlers
>>> Woodbury, VT USA
>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 1:07 PM
>>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Location, Location, Location.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 6/5/2016 8:03:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>> I was  thinking ... how sad that the RCC doesn't have the vision of
>>> married
>>> former  priests excercising their diaconal ministries in the
>>> parishes.>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure exactly what you mean here, I guess, but I can tell you
>>> that
>>> retired RC priests are generally kept very busy liturgically, and also
>>> perf
>>> orm
>>> hospital visitations, etc.  In fact a number of such retirees have  said
>>> words
>>> to the effect that they are busier since retirement than before.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David Strang.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>