Comments on: Wgtn raising profile of priestly vocations https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/09/03/wgtn-raising-profile-of-priestly-vocations/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 By: Greg https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2019/09/03/wgtn-raising-profile-of-priestly-vocations/#comment-30274 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 23:34:24 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20109#comment-30274 We get what we plan for. Mostly.
Odd as it seems the environment for this situation was laid back in the 1980-2000s. We wanted female priests, deacon-less dioceses, priest-less liturgies, downplay of sacraments, parish priest as figurehead, lay-person homilies, syncretism, religious indifferentism, etc. Really, we can’t act too surprised. As an amateur I’m not surprised.

The call to “priesthood” has never gone away but welcoming of the specific vocation of a sacrificial male priesthood has fluctuated wildly. Don’t you think? After all, it’s 2019 and only now is a committee been formed? Why now? Why not 2009?

Distasteful as it is to the Kiwi palate, the many missionary priests shoring up our walls offer a provocative counterpoint to our local American/German model of vocation and priesthood. If we want to see it.
Peace.

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