Note: Monsignor's column is not available this week.

 

 

Quote for Thought:

 

     “...Disorientation turns into fatigue as priests begin to realize that the increase in the number and complexity of administrative tasks is a trend that in all likelihood will continue unabated each year. They also know from experience that even with fewer priests, people’s expectations are the same or even greater. As one bishop recently noted: ‘The majority of Catholics have not yet understood
how thin the ranks of priests are getting, and their expectations have not changed from twenty-five years ago.’ In fact, my own experience is that the expectations are even greater than in the past.”
     - Bishop Blase J. Cupich, in Priests for a New Millennium, pp. 181-182.

 

Quote for Thought Lite: “The time to make friends is before you need them.”