My character is a fourteen-year-old girl who migrated to Australia with her family from Singapore when she was six. Her family were Hindus way back when, but have been Catholic for generations. She attends a Catholic girls' high school, where she is bullied by other girls for being what they consider overly religious: volunteering to sing a hymn
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here's a sort of "confession template" that might be helpful.
How the priest responds is going to be based a lot on what kind of person he is and what their relationship's like. The Bible's very long and has lots of quotable stories. A few that spring to mind:
-Jesus saying to turn the other cheek if she's thinking of getting violent about it
-here's a collection of Bible quotes about persecution
For further googling, maybe try adding search terms "persecution" and "advice" or "advice catholic persecution" (hopefully not how-to?).
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It's quite possible to make appointments with priests for spiritual direction. In general, in a situation where there are other people waiting to confess, the priest tends to keep the advice on the short side, and might encourage the penitent to make an appointment to talk more in private.
My guess is that he would not only make reference to certain scripture passages about being mocked for one's faith, but also quite possibly refer to one of the many patron saints of people ridiculed for their piety. (Yes, we Catholics really do have saints for everything.) In particular I can imagine him telling ( ... )
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I would mention that that basically anybody who went through seminary in the past 40 years was post-Vatican 2, so that means if they're younger than 60, they're almost guaranteed to be post V2, though different seminaries fully encorporated Vatican 2's reforms at different stages and to different degrees.
Also, since this is "little_details," a catholic priest would not say he missed a parishioner at services last Sunday, but that he missed them at Mass. In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of what sort of service that a catholic priest would call "services." Church, maybe, but to me (raised catholic), "services" is very much a protestant term.
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Several people have already suggested the appropriate beatitude. There's also "Love your enemies" and "turn the other cheek." There's something about never feeling anger towards ones brothers. Anger is a sin, if I remember correctly, so the priest would probably encourage her to forgive and pray for them.
If he's the sort to assign a particular prayer, The Lord's Prayer talks about forgiveness, and the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi also talks about peace and forgiveness. She's likely to know both of those.
Um... if you want more details let me know, and I can pull out the textbook I've been teaching from. (Since I'm a mere sub, I don't have the verses and such memorized, but this is a major theme of the chapter I just covered.)
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In which country is the school you're subbing
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I'm in the US, specificly in southern CA. Huge Latino population, so Catholicism is practically a local culture, and they're all about getting passionate about things. Maybe it is a regional thing. Now I'm really curious about your story!
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Mary Mackillop might work pretty well, actually, because as I recall, the teachers at my old school were crazy about her. I think we watched the dramatisation of her life on video about once a year... Thanks for your help. :)
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