So, let's get acquainted.
I’m a “former” catholic priest.
I left the active ministry seven years ago in order to marry. Now I have three children, two sons and a daughter.
I am still not laicized, although I have applied for the dispensation from celibacy a few months ago.
I have not turned into an atheist, anti-Catholic or anticlerical. I love my Church, although sometimes I am not happy with some things the hierarchy is doing, and I’m still loving her, despite it seems to me that she completely forgot about me.
I'm not calling for the abolition of the celibacy, and even more so, I'm not a supporter of female priesthood, same-sex marriages, abortion rights and so on. I appreciate the Church’s magisterium, even if I don't always completely agree with it.
At the same time it's really painful for me, that in the Church there is no place for the priests who left. I’ll never can feel like a laic, I’ll can not become an ex-priest, even if I receive the rescript of dispensation one day. I understand that it’s impossible for me to remain in the previous position in the Church, but I believe some solution could be found which might allow to not renounce own identity for those who, whatever the case, remain priests forever.
To serve the Church – as a priest, to pray with the Church – as a priest, and, first of all, to celebrate the Eucharist – as a priest, because without the Eucharist a priest dies. These celebrations may be not public, but any Holy Mass – we know it – is offered for whole Church.
So, if you are in the same or similar situation at the moment, please, contact me, I’ll be glad to know you!
I’m a “former” catholic priest.
I left the active ministry seven years ago in order to marry. Now I have three children, two sons and a daughter.
I am still not laicized, although I have applied for the dispensation from celibacy a few months ago.
I have not turned into an atheist, anti-Catholic or anticlerical. I love my Church, although sometimes I am not happy with some things the hierarchy is doing, and I’m still loving her, despite it seems to me that she completely forgot about me.
I'm not calling for the abolition of the celibacy, and even more so, I'm not a supporter of female priesthood, same-sex marriages, abortion rights and so on. I appreciate the Church’s magisterium, even if I don't always completely agree with it.
At the same time it's really painful for me, that in the Church there is no place for the priests who left. I’ll never can feel like a laic, I’ll can not become an ex-priest, even if I receive the rescript of dispensation one day. I understand that it’s impossible for me to remain in the previous position in the Church, but I believe some solution could be found which might allow to not renounce own identity for those who, whatever the case, remain priests forever.
To serve the Church – as a priest, to pray with the Church – as a priest, and, first of all, to celebrate the Eucharist – as a priest, because without the Eucharist a priest dies. These celebrations may be not public, but any Holy Mass – we know it – is offered for whole Church.
So, if you are in the same or similar situation at the moment, please, contact me, I’ll be glad to know you!
