My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, last
weekend Archbishop Gustavo proclaimed, in a beautiful ceremony outside San Fernando
Cathedral the vision he has for our archdiocese for the next years. Along with
this edition of The Pastor's bench
you find the three priorities of the
Archbishop and his ideas of how to do it. The task of building the
Particular Church of San Antonio it is not only in the hands of our Archbishop,
priests and deacons, but of all the baptized: also depends on you, yeah, you've
got this paper between your hands. Soon will come a new priest to take my place
as pastor of this parish community, and surely he will have some ideas on how
to carry out these initiatives of the Archbishop. It is important that you
collaborate with the new pastor, not only complain about things that are wrong
in the parish or that can be improved, but you work shoulder to shoulder, in
parish activities such as the ministry of reader, Eucharistic minister,
coordinator of the Mass, ACTS,
Guadalupanos, CYO, Jovenes para Cristo, etc. Let's be honest, we tend to
see things in a negative way, but if we make an assessment and an a good examination
of conscience, we have thousands of reasons to get on our knees and thank God
for all that He gives us. The psalmist wonders what to do in good times, and
the answer comes from the Spirit of God: How
can I repay the LORD for all the great good done for me? I will raise the cup
of salvation and call on the name of the LORD[1].
I'm going to propose something to you: What if the next time you find something
that bother you, rather than writing a letter complaining or criticizing, you
first do a time of prayer, you read the ideas of the archbishop, and then you
present to your pastor a solution? It is very easy to criticize and very easy
to say that the Church should change this or that, but how hard is to give our
time and effort, can you imagine what would have happened if Jesus had had the
same heart sometimes as miserable as the one we have humans? Think about it in
all this that I write to you today. Think the Archbishop is supported by all of
us, to build the Universal Church as embodied in this Particular Church of San
Antonio; we should work shoulder to shoulder with him, with the help of the Spirit
and the intercession of Mary, our Lady ■ Fr. Agustin, pastor.
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