A year ago Blessed Trinity added a new priest to the church. His name was Father Bill and he had an interesting backstory. He had not only become a priest later in life, but had also been married and had a child twenty years ago. I had no judgement on that. I was glad that he found his calling and pursued it even though he originally thought his life was leading him elsewhere. I just never know what type of priest someone is until I have gotten to know them a little bit better, heard their homilies and watched how they interacted with parishioners. Within a few weeks, I knew that he was going to be a priest that I would really relate to and was so happy that the diocese assigned him to our church.
Father Bill’s homily yesterday reminded me of why I have really come to enjoy him as our home priest as he not only talked about fatherhood and the role of a father in a child’s life, but also about fear. He told us that fear was an important part of life, but not if it took over your life. He quoted scripture and reminded us that there was no reason to let fear take over as we had Jesus and the Bible to comfort us in times of distress. With so many unknowns in our life right now, it was exactly what I needed to hear and I appreciated his homily very much. Thankfully, it won’t be the last homily that we hear from him and for that I am really grateful.
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