Fr. Corapi: "I’m not going to be involved in ministry as a priest anymore…”

No matter where you fall on your opinion of this man, it is time now to pray for everyone concerned. In particular, we should be praying for the many people who placed so much faith in his ministry. They are finding all of this quite devastating.

Let us pray. . . .

For priests who are ill or in any kind of difficulty, that our prayer may reach them all and give them true spiritual consolation, that it may strengthen their certainty of the Lord's love for them, which is also manifest in the sign of his Cross.

For those called to the priesthood, that their choice may be motivated solely by the desire to glorify God and to serve him in their brethren, communicating to them the gifts of the divine mercy of the Lord who came to find those who were lost and to restore to life those who lived no longer.



For priests who are in difficulty, so that, through prayer, they may accept enlightenment from the Lord in order to rediscover the joy of their identity as men in the world but not of the world, consecrated in the truth and witnesses of the Cross and the Resurrection.

Comments

  1. Amen. I will keep John Corapi in my prayers. It is the least I can do, in response for all he has done for me.

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  2. Much has been written and much has been said. Time for charity. my prayers go with Fr. Corapi wherever his journey takes him.

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  3. Do you think, perhaps, that we should be careful not to put people on pedestals?

    We've all got feet of clay and it can avoid a lot of heart-ache.

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  4. Yes, I agree that he and all involved need prayer. I was very saddened to hear this news and I am praying for him.

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  5. So sad.
    From Father Joe blog:

    "Another reason why cult worship of religious media personalities should be discouraged. Our faith is in Jesus and the Church, not in preachers with impressive rhetoric and militant attitudes"

    I confess to watching Joyce Meyer and was even tempted to go to a conference until I realised I was caught up in the glamour of her ministry, rather than her words, though I never found these a challenge to my Catholic faith.

    We can never know what TV people are really like can we? We have to learn to be discerning or suffer the disappointment of fallen idols.

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  6. "In particular, we should be praying for the many people who placed so much faith in his ministry" I'm not sure if I understand this sentence. Those who listened to his preaching aren't sitting around saying, "Is all that he said a lie?" His preaching/teachings were sound, Catholic, profound, spiritual, interesting, thought-provoking among other things. His so-call, "fall from grace" doesn't change this or make what he preached null & void. He is a human who is hurting right now. Let the dust settle, please. I have faith that the Holy Spirit will continue to work thru him, collar, clerics or not and the teachings in his Black Sheepdog mode will be edifying and interesting. I will continue to follow him, for as far as I know, the bishops haven't forebade anyone from listening to what he has to say. The Spirit within us will let us know if anything is against our teachings or the Scriptures. If not...Fr. Corapi will have my attention.

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  7. I'm wondering if we can continue this discussion on our own blogs as I think it's too controversial for ACWB..what do you think?

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  8. Hello Jacqueline
    Looking at the personal blogs last night, male and female, I think it is probably likely to find people going into one camp or another over the issue so perhaps we better move on.
    Some people will want to show loyalty, others be hurt and puzzled. We just do not know about the reasons behind all this.
    The ACWB's first real editorial test here on a difficult issue so shall we maybe leave it all to Our Lord?

    PS. Is the beautiful blogging girl to remain mysterious or has agreement been found over her name? Now that's a subject worth loosing sleep over! (-:
    Kind Regards

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  9. No more comments ,let us move on.

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  10. If a person moves us closer to God, it is God that you hear. The person is just an instrument. Often times the old saying "Don't kill the messenger" rings true.

    Pray for God's Will to be done in the situation. That really is all that needs to be said.

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