The Sulpician rector of St. Patrick's seminary in Menlo Park seems to have the right instinct . . . He realizes that there is a great hunger for meaning in the culture and he wants to form priests who can dialogue with this culture, engage it, and help people to reconcile this with the Church's vision of communion. Like I said, he has the right instincts . . . he just falls kind of flat in my book. He proposes that the Church needs more "structures" in place that adults can "plug-in to."
Yeah, like the Church really needs more 'structures.' I wish this priest could meet the movement, I wish he could see what I've seen and what Fr. Giussani is always talking about . . . that we don't need a "structure" to plug into, we need a communion to be a part of, a friendship that is for all of our life. We need a way to see Christ that helps us to recognize that he is the substance of our lives, the very happiness we seek.
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