They should consider themselves lucky that I live here and not there.
Dear Diocese of Miami:
My father gave you years, no, decades of service in his parishes of Saint Rose and Holy Family. When the lay diaconate was established, he expressed an interest in becoming a deacon in the late 1970s. Then my mother died and he was told different things by different people regarding whether he could become a deacon and still be able to remarry.
Some 22 years ago, he decided he wanted to become a deacon regardless, when he was 56. You've strung him along until it has become obvious that you won't take him on now because of his age, but you won't even have the guts to tell him why you've turned him down this one last time yesterday, on what would have been their 55th wedding anniversary had my mother lived.
He was going to become a priest before he met my mom. He has met no one else since my mother died in 1980.
If you had valid reasons to turn him down, valid reasons to show why he lacked the vocation back in the early 1990s, you could have told him why. If you turned him down because one of his two children has broken with the RC faith completely and the other is lukewarm and nominally RC at best, then despite one of the best popes to come along in years, you may have just cost yourselves lukewarm little me.
I am angry with you for making my father so heartsick of spirit. It is something I will not forget any time soon.
No love,
Me
My father gave you years, no, decades of service in his parishes of Saint Rose and Holy Family. When the lay diaconate was established, he expressed an interest in becoming a deacon in the late 1970s. Then my mother died and he was told different things by different people regarding whether he could become a deacon and still be able to remarry.
Some 22 years ago, he decided he wanted to become a deacon regardless, when he was 56. You've strung him along until it has become obvious that you won't take him on now because of his age, but you won't even have the guts to tell him why you've turned him down this one last time yesterday, on what would have been their 55th wedding anniversary had my mother lived.
He was going to become a priest before he met my mom. He has met no one else since my mother died in 1980.
If you had valid reasons to turn him down, valid reasons to show why he lacked the vocation back in the early 1990s, you could have told him why. If you turned him down because one of his two children has broken with the RC faith completely and the other is lukewarm and nominally RC at best, then despite one of the best popes to come along in years, you may have just cost yourselves lukewarm little me.
I am angry with you for making my father so heartsick of spirit. It is something I will not forget any time soon.
No love,
Me