[Magdalen] Life's blessings

[Marion Thompson]

My last comment: I will never forget what the area bishop said to me 
when I went looking for some comfort or counsel, a person to talk to, 
anything.  "The Church is not pastoral."  Ho-kay.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/21/2016 9:37 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
> I think I've said this before,
> but anyway ...
> I have several friends who were denied ordination,
> and some of them were terribly wounded by the experience.
> A couple of them have had very nasty passive-aggressive
> relations with the church, maybe as a kind of revenge.
> Or else the committee & bishop made a good call.
> Not sure which.
>
> I wish the church did a better job with the aftermath/fallout.
> But the tendency is to drop people HARD and then turn away.
>
> One of my friends (most assuredly now held in Jesus' arms)
> was of the older school, men who couldn't meet the Latin requirement.
> He spent his life in the church, exercising a deaconal ministry,
> and died much loved and admired by the parish.
> IMO (in my observation) the RCs are much better at this than we are.
> -M
>
>
> On Friday, October 21, 2016, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> open the door a crack and let out some pain that lurks in the shadows.
>> Isn't this all why people go to therapists and talk things out?  I could
>> keep one busy for a very long time.
>>
>>