Hey…No Church Has Ever Done This For Me!
Check out this information about a church in Madrid that REALLY wants to keep its priest:
Members of a Spanish village parish have gone on hunger strike in protest at the transfer of their much-loved priest to another church, the newspaper El Pais reported Monday. Eighteen members of a parish in Albunol in the southern province of Granada have refused to eat in protest at the transfer of Gabriel Castillo, and 200 parishioners have locked themselves in the church in an attempt to keep him as their priest.
Gee. No one has ever gone on a hunger strike when I have announced that I am moving! In fact, some folks at my current church might be inclined to stage a hunger strike in order to expedite my departure: “We’re not eating again until the pewboy leaves!!!!”
Anyway, how would you like to be that priest’s successor?!
Gee, they gave a pot-luck dinner when I left my last two appointments. And I think just about everyone in the church came to eat.
Hey, wait a minute…are you saying your current church needs to go on a diet?!
Come on, Allene…This is about ME! Keep the focus on ME…..ME……..MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
By the way, “Come on, Allene” is very close to a certain tune from the 80s that I know you enjoyed…between hair band songs, that is.
Got get those spiffy overalls before you break into that song.
Look at this as glass half full. Your congregation is so devoted to something that they’d suffer personal discomfort to get it. You are changing people’s lives. How many of us can say that?
OOps, sorry I must have forgotten that it was Eric Park day, I’m sure I would have remembered if my Palm hadn’t erased my calendar!!!
and OHHH, I hated that song, I heard it every day after school in 7th grade from the (least)favorite boy in my class as he modified the lyrics to his amusement!
I was thinking that I need to go on a hunger strike so that I will not look as disgusting in the mirror.
Eric
I went on a ho ho strick when you left CUMC Eric, but that didnt make it to the news, paper, or even the gossip mill. Humpf!!
If the Funkanator was to leave, I may stick for something of greater value! Icecream?
I digress…it is about you, of course!
It may be all about you now, Eric. But don’t get in the way of Barb because nine times out of ten it is about her!
I believe another phenomenon occurs when a pastor gets moved, which is another form of protest. Something they know about in Spain as well. It’s called the “Running of the Bulls” It’s unfortunate that people head for the exits when a pastoral change occurs, and something we haven’t yet solved.
Whoa! I’ll hunger strike if you go! And it’s alllllll about you!