{"id":701,"date":"2012-04-01T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2012-04-01T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T20:06:24","slug":"more-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/more-change\/","title":{"rendered":"More Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, if you have been reading my blog for a while, you may know that I was ordained a priest in June 2007.\u00a0 My first assignment was St. Mary’s on the south side of Elmira.\u00a0 I served there for three years but after two years the pastor’s term was up and a new pastor came.\u00a0 The following year, my three-year term was up and I moved to Our Lady of the Lakes for a different experience.\u00a0 One year after I arrived at Our Lady of the Lakes, the pastor left to take a new parish.\u00a0 So, a new pastor came.<\/p>\n

This June will be the fifth anniversary of my ordination as a priest.\u00a0 I will have served in two different parishes with four different pastors.\u00a0 One might think that I might be doing something to wear out pastors!\u00a0 I hope not!<\/p>\n

Well, this week Bishop Clark to give me a new assignment.\u00a0 At the end of June, I will be moving to Ithaca to serve at Immaculate Conception<\/a>.\u00a0 You might wonder if I will wear out the pastor there too.\u00a0 I hope not because I will be the pastor!<\/p>\n

All kidding aside, through\u00a0a lot <\/em>of prayer and discernment, I do believe this is where God is calling me to be.\u00a0 That is what is most important.\u00a0 Before I received the call from the bishop, people sometimes asked if I felt ready to be a pastor.\u00a0 My answer was ‘how do you know if you are ready to do something you haven’t done before?’<\/p>\n

I didn’t feel ‘not ready’ but what does it mean to be ready?\u00a0 Of course, in the years when there were a lot more priests, a priest may be ordained 20 years before they became a pastor.\u00a0 Of course, in those days, most priests were ordained at 26 years of age and had never had another job.\u00a0 I spent several years in engineering and was almost 38 years old when I was ordained.<\/p>\n

The two parishes I have served in certainly have given my very different experience.\u00a0 The first being a single church serving a portion of one county while the second covered an area spanning three counties (and three area codes) with four churches currently celebrating Sunday Mass.<\/p>\n

Every parish has its pro’s and con’s.\u00a0 Every parish can have its challenges.\u00a0 What is most important is that it be where God is leading me.\u00a0 As long as I go where God leads me and I remain open to His will, God will give me (often through the people around me) what I need to accomplish what He asks of me.<\/p>\n

Please pray for me as I prepare to take this new assignment.<\/p>\n

Peace,<\/p>\n

Fr. Jeff<\/p>\n

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Well, if you have been reading my blog for a while, you may know that I was ordained a priest in June 2007.\u00a0 My first assignment was St. Mary’s on the south side of Elmira.\u00a0 I served there for three years but after two years the pastor’s term was up and a new pastor came.\u00a0 …<\/p>\n

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