Pastoral Encounters of the Weird Kind -- funny

[MariaRegina]

Pastoral Encounters of the Weird Kind

Fr. Aris Metrakos


Clergy find themselves in absolutely wacky conversations. Forget about the verbatims analyzed as part of hospital ministry training and the books on pastoral counseling that occupy an entire shelf of the pastor's library. Nothing at seminary could ever prepare a young man for the awkward and often absurd exchanges that pass for priest-parishioner communication.



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http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles7/MetrakosEncounters.php

[Philothei]

Pastoral Encounters of the Weird Kind

Fr. Aris Metrakos


Clergy find themselves in absolutely wacky conversations. Forget about the verbatims analyzed as part of hospital ministry training and the books on pastoral counseling that occupy an entire shelf of the pastor's library. Nothing at seminary could ever prepare a young man for the awkward and often absurd exchanges that pass for priest-parishioner communication.



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http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles7/MetrakosEncounters.php
And this is just bearly the tip of the iceburg..... on the lighter side it does sound funny and fortunately most of our priests are so accusotomed to this that they do see them as trivial.... Ohhh the "deamons" of the priests....they are are so notable .... so many and so persistant ....

Thanks ARia for that post.... IOU one....put a smile on my face and... we might be "beaten" but we are never "conquered"... by the evil one...Like todays epistle said it is not "flesh and blood" we fight against but principallities....etc.

God bless,
Philothei

[KenBrauckmann]

I hope my pastor will see the humor in that - have to print him a copy...

(and He LOVES Starbucks!! )

Time for a Vente Quad-shot, Peppermint Giraffe!! :D

[Shubunkin]

Oh, and I am only beginning to understand what a priest has to put up with. There was something similar last Sunday, but I don't want to say it here. ;)

I should show our priest this... maybe he would feel some sympathy with what happened.

[SeraphimSarov]

I'm going to have to send this one to my priest! :)