Look what I found this morning, buried in the middle of the Vatican Information Service bulletin. Pope Francis tells us to bother our pastors, trouble them, disturb them.
He's telling the laity not to accept half-truths or Protestant homilies from the pulpit. He wants us to speak up!
Let's do it!
'In this regard' (praying for priests, helping them) 'the Pope explained that once he read a text by St. Caesarius of
Arles, a priest of the first centuries of the Church, who explained how the
people of God can help their pastor, with the following example: “When a calf is
hungry he goes to the cow, his mother, for milk. However, the cow does not give
it to him immediately; it almost seems as if she keeps it for herself. And so
what does the calf do? He nudges the cow's udder with his nose, and in this way
the milk comes. It is a beautiful image. And this, says the saint, is what you
must do with your pastors: always knock at their door, at their heart, so that
they give you the milk of doctrine, the milk of grace and the milk of guidance.
I ask you, please, to trouble your pastors, to disturb them, all of us, so that
we can give you the milk of grace, doctrine and guidance. Bother us! Think of
that beautiful image of the calf who nudges his mother to feed him”.'
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