Daily Breakfast 583 – Roman Holiday
The third part of my adventures in Rome. Today: more French liturgy, Berlusconi, Chinese food and leaky pens; strolling through the Via del Corso; missing the last bus; the Colosseum; a cold night and an even colder morning shower!
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Hi Father… thanks for a new DB…
I check your Twitter feeds for information and you just posted this about 3 hours ago:
“Back from a meeting addressing the new liturgical situation after the sudden departure of our parish priest.”
Your parish and diocesan business are not really our business, but I know a lot of folks are wondering. Can you address any of this yet?
Thanks!
Ooh, a cliffhanger! I’m all in suspenders.
(It’s a really old joke.)
And if you’re interested in addressing Eamonn’s question, I’m interested also.
The ‘orange’ street lights on that road to the Colosseum, were sodium-vapor lamps, while the new blue/white lamps are mercury-vapor lamps. Most people who do visible astronomy prefer the use of the former, as it’s far easier to filter out the narrow band of yellow that contributes most of the light in the sodium spectrum. The mercury spectrum is much harder to filter out.
Thanks for another delightful episode. I walked up Via Del Corso many times when I was there. I can’t wait for Part IV. You are a wonderful story teller.
@Eamonn @Hans: I always forget that not everyone is reading all my updates on Twitter, Facebook or Plurk.
My bishop nominated our parish priest to be one of three new regional vicars of our diocese, starting Feb. 1.
That leaves me as the only priest for seven parishes with ten churches (not twelve as I miscalculated earlier). The departure of our parish priests leaves us with no solution for more than 85 weekend Masses that were planned until June.
I sure have been enjoying these Roman adventures, especially this one, since it features Fr. Henry, my favorite CI/DB character!
Thank you for addressing my question regarding your parish situation. I’m sure that someone (including yourself) is looking into any and all possible solutions, albeit temporary.
Will this also make you responsible as “pastor”, that is, the administrative tasks as well?
I know some dioceses in the US limit the number of Masses a priest can celebrate in one weekend and, of course, some places have consolidated some of their parishes and/or Masses into the larger facilities.
Good luck with all of this! There is a fine line between a busy priest and an overworked one…
With Prayers!
In our archdiocese, the regional vicars stay on at their parishes–it just involves added tasks for the archdiocese in addition to regular parish work. I guess the job must be entirely different there, if they are taking the priest out of his parish just to be regional vicar. It would be interesting to hear you talk sometime about just what the job of vicar entails. I would hope it isn’t one of those situations where a priest is used to do administrative work that a layperson could do.