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Week of September 6, 1999
WCR Letters to the Editor
Advice for handling private revelations
It is without hesitation that I warn your readers not to seek new revelations and novelties within the Catholic Church.The Catholic Church is the depository of the truth, all of it. Christ said it, I believe it, that settles it.
The article "Sincere, healthy, faithful but wrong" (WCR, Aug. 23) disturbed me in that not every so-called locution comes from God. It is not that private revelation should be rejected out of hand, but rather that the Spirit should be examined.
To those who are interested in private revelation, I would like to divert them from John Leary's books to private revelation which has the nihil obstat and the imprimatur of the Church. There is nothing new in them but rather a deepening of known truth by our Lord.
The Spiritual Legacy of Sister Mary of the Holy Trinity (Poor Clare of Jerusalem, 1901-42) available through Tan Books.
Message of the Merciful Love to Little Souls, Pope Publications, Box 6161, San Rafael, Calif, 94903.
Thoughts and Reflections available through Fidelitas, 5900 Yonge St., Apt. 215, Willowdale, Ont, M2M 3T8.
For those who are pulled from side to side, I recommend the following: Go to the Tabernacle of Love and point your index finger toward it and say, "You are the truth and the way and the life; in you I trust."
D.A.J. Verreau
Edmonton
More on priests' workload
Victor Lo's observations (Letters, WCR, Aug. 30) regarding the workload of priests are right on target.The transformation of parishes will do nothing to ease the workload that priests now face; in fact, if we are not careful, we'll find a diminished number of priests taking on more and more territory and greatly increased pastoral responsibility. Then the last state will be worse than the first.
The priests themselves were quick to see this possibility when the pastoral plan was presented.
They passed on to the Council of Priests a recommendation that a task group, composed primarily of laity, be established to examine the legitimate role of our priests and realistic expectations of our priests by the laity.
That task group is being assembled now. Would Victor Lo like to be part of this group?
Msgr. John Hamilton
Chair
Council of Priests
Edmonton
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