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To all our spiritual fathers in the Faith who have generously answered the Lord's call to the Holy Priesthood,
Happy Father's Day
We tend to forget how much we owe you when we send out the cards and do all that special stuff on this day.
Please forgive me for posting so late.
Bob
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Yes, Happy Father's Day to all those priests on this forum who are also spiritual fathers to many. May God grant them all good blessings. Amen.
Happy Father's Day also to Bob, Neil, and all those other posters here who are fathers. May God grant them strength, courage, perseverence, wisdom, love, patience and kindness in their day to day family life. Amen.
In Christ,
Alice
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My thanks to Bob and to Alice for these greetings - I was wondering if someone would realize that priests are "fathers" too!
By the way, I found myself called upon to baptise an infant named "Alice" a week ago.
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Father Serge:
Father bless!!
I spent some time over the weekend thinking about the valuable gifts my own father--may his memory be eternal--gave me in terms of skills taught, advice given, and example shown. Recently I was in a position to pass along some skills to my daughter and son-in-law who've just bought a new home and wanted to paint all the rooms inside. I spent the better part of two weekends with them. My father could do almost anything needed around the house: plumbing, wiring, painting, plastering, cabinetmaking, carpentry, roofing, gardening--all those skills that can cost a fortune to have done by a contractor.
And I also spent some time thanking God for all the spiritual fathers I've had who have patiently tutored me in the Faith well beyond the minimum: men who have prayed with me, challenged me, admonished me, guided me--men without whom I might have been lost. Some gave me books to read; some explained some of the more difficult things I'd come across in my studies; some were just there when my spiritual life got so dry it seemed that I had no desire to pray or read Scripture or do anything else.
May the Lord God bless each one and grant each one favored place in His Kingdom. And I hope you get a front row seat, too.
Bob
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Happy Father's Day, belatedly, to the many priests, Catholic (Eastern and Latin), Orthodox, and others, who bless us with their fatherly presence here.
I just counted an easy baker's dozen without giving more than a minutes' thought to the matter; I'd name them individually but, someone would be forgotten and I'd feel terrible about that.
Happy Father's Day, also, to my dear friend and brother, Bob, and to the many proud and loving Dads among our members.
And may the memory of all those of our own Fathers, who have gone before us, be blessed and eternal, particularly my own Dad, who reposed on the eve of Father's Day, 51 years ago.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Personally, I will settle quite thankfully for the very last place in the Kingdom of Heaven, if God in His Infinite Mercy will be so kind and generous as to receive me there, undeserving though I am.
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Happy Father's Day, belatedly, to the many priests, Catholic (Eastern and Latin), Orthodox, and others, who bless us with their fatherly presence here.
Neil Thank you, Neil, for your gracious ecumenical wish to the "others" such as I. My Ordination as a Presbyter, appropriately, was on Father's Day.
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May the Lord bless you brother!!
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Happy Father's Day, belatedly, to the many priests, Catholic (Eastern and Latin), Orthodox, and others, who bless us with their fatherly presence here.
Neil Thank you, Neil, for your gracious ecumenical wish to the "others" such as I. My Ordination as a Presbyter, appropriately, was on Father's Day. Father Thomas, You were one of two whom I particularly had in mind when I phrased that. A happy and blessed anniversary of your ordination and may God grant you many more. Many years, Neil
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