It makes him stand out as a priest. Emergency situations can arise quickly when a priest is needed and seconds count. I recall an elderly priest who stopped by a large fire as a young priest. He was recognized by a fire captain and told that he was needed inside to give the Last Rites, and into the burning inferno he ran. He denied acting bravely that day. He was a priest and such potential self sacrifice goes with being a priest.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
You won’t find rainbow Stoles in the closet of priests who wear cassocks.
Our good pastor wears his cassock everywhere,
Including on the ice rink behind the church.
John Scott, retired from Professional Hockey, is a parishioner, and it’s great fun seeing them play hockey with the altar servers.
God bless our Holy priests.
With the cassock, the priest stands apart from the world. The modernist thought, as expressed by PF, is to be a part of the world. Like many things, his nuance has lost its distinction.
Isn’t it strange that, in a society so obsessed with “identity”, forces inside the Church and outside it both want priests to be incognito, which literally means unknown…
Opus Dei Priests wear the cassock.
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