A Human for Everyone
A Human for Everyone
The priestly father is responsible for the spiritual life of all the people.
He is responsible for bringing every person to God, keeping him there, and caring for him from every aspect and at every time.
And when we say that he is responsible for every person within the scope of his pastoral care, we mean even his enemies and those who oppose him, and even those who refuse to deal with the Church…
He is responsible for the troublesome and difficult people, and responsible for those who practice crime and those who enter prisons, and those who frequent places of amusement and mock religion.
He is a person who deals with all temperaments, in all their contradiction, And it is expected of him that he deals well with everyone...
He deals with the calm and the nervous, with the meticulous and the careless, with the rational and the foolish. With the intelligent and the stupid, with the poor and the rich… with everyone… with the cheerful and smiling, and with the weeping and sorrowful, and with the withdrawn and rigid, and with the open and social.
He deals with the deep in knowledge, and with the ignorant and illiterate, and with the superficial in information, and with the one who claims knowledge… and it is expected of him to satisfy all of these…
As much as he can, he tries to please everyone, lead everyone, and become all things to all people: to be a smile for the sorrowful, firmness for the careless, vigilance for the heedless, repentance for the sinner, spiritual satisfaction for the admonished… and hope for the despairing…
He becomes like one who speaks every tongue and every language, and every temperament, and knows how to communicate with everyone… Therefore, the work of the priesthood was a difficult work, and not every person is fit for it.
How difficult it is to deal with differing souls. And how difficult it is to understand the contradictory and diverse mentalities, and here the work of the man of religion appears.
Here is the great heart that has room for everyone, and here are experience and wisdom.
And it is expected of the man of religion that he be experienced in mentalities, and experienced in human nature. And the more time passes for him in a certain diocese, the more he understands the temperaments of the people in it, and becomes accustomed to dealing with their psychologies and mentalities, and knows how to deal with each person according to what suits him: this one with strictness sometimes, and this one with gentleness, and this one with silence. This one with cheerfulness, and this one with seriousness.
The priest must gain the love of the people, in order to be able to lead them to the love of God.
And if he does not gain their love, he cannot benefit them spiritually.
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