tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post2402896906798427728..comments2024-01-12T04:58:49.069-05:00Comments on Kyrie, Eleison!: Communion in the Church: What is It?Anastasia Theodoridishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-12078828465072575762010-08-02T08:46:58.573-04:002010-08-02T08:46:58.573-04:00Michael, your comment warms my heart because I nev...Michael, your comment warms my heart because I never get it right, either, except when my getting it wrong is what the other person(s) end up liking. As when I'm over-familair right away, but so are they. Or I'm shy and stand-offish for a while, but they like it better that way because they are, too.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-80747758988292100162010-07-29T10:38:15.520-04:002010-07-29T10:38:15.520-04:00You're quite right, of course. Fr Andrew Phil...You're quite right, of course. Fr Andrew Phillips, (one of our more prolific priests here in Britain, just in case his fame hasn't crossed the Atlantic), wrote about this once, not directly but in terms of reasons people give for not going to a certain church or being reluctant about confessing to a particular priest: 'I don't warm to him', 'I don't find him "approachable"', 'I don't think he likes me'. None of these things, perceived or real, negates the communion that exists among us and the priest's place within that. We are to be known by our fruit, yet among the Saints who bore the most spritual fruit, who were seen as most Christ-like, were those who did not socialise, who retreated from the world, or were completely devoid of social skills by the standards of the world, which thought them quite mad.<br /><br />Yet we are also to be known to be Christian by our love. While church life as an ongoing bake sale/social function may not be our cup of tea, if this makes for discomfort for anybody, or a sense of rejection or difficulty becoming part of the parish community, then we are failing in that love and need to reassess how we are with people.<br /><br />I either get overfamiliar too soon or, in an attempt to avoid this, end up seeming aloof. I never get it right.Bbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10989307876421460920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-77408961150932243802010-07-29T10:38:03.280-04:002010-07-29T10:38:03.280-04:00Well said, all of it. Glory to God for His great l...Well said, all of it. Glory to God for His great love that brings us together in spite of our sins. Lord, have mercy!GretchenJoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641677400029070452noreply@blogger.com