tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post1654372235758057513..comments2023-10-18T14:53:28.622+01:00Comments on Forest Murmurs: Seminaries: the generation gap?Fr Michael Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-54433270878698807362009-06-13T13:11:36.294+01:002009-06-13T13:11:36.294+01:00This is an excelent address by the Archbishop and ...This is an excelent address by the Archbishop and I would advise that everbody read it. There is within it a clear recognition of (1) the failure of catechesis in the last few decades; (2) the dissonance between the older generation of priests and laity and the younger generation (the older having embraced secualrisation in the belief that it constituted openess to the world but thereby losing the sense of "sin, grace, and the divinised life"), and (3) the "loss of the sense of the sacred" in the liturgy. If only the seminary rectors would take this on board. Sadly, I suspect that they are spiritually more akin to many of the older-generation who mistook secularism for engagement with the world, a mistake perhaps easily made in that such secualrisation seemed to hold to many aspects of faith, encouraging people to the "service of peace, justice and humanitarian causes, but do they believe in eternal life?". It is a striking address.English Pastornoreply@blogger.com