{"id":13244,"date":"2014-08-22T12:49:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2014-08-22T12:49:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:49:50","slug":"on-traveling-in-clericals-and-ecumenical-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2014\/08\/on-traveling-in-clericals-and-ecumenical-movement.html","title":{"rendered":"On Traveling in Clericals and Ecumenical Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"travels\"<\/a>I am on my way to San Antonio to speak at the Fullness of Truth conference, and as usual I am traveling in clericals.<\/p>\n

I usually do so when traveling to a speaking engagement because it makes me behave myself\u2026<\/p>\n

Seriously, I like traveling in clericals because it is a silent form of witness. \u201cLook! There\u2019s somebody who\u2019s trying to give himself to God!\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, maybe.<\/p>\n

But I do get into good conversations. People call me \u201cFather\u201d and are generally more friendly.<\/p>\n

Little kids smile at me.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the airport workers overlook the fact that my bag is two pounds over and put me in the fast lane for security\u2013but that\u2019s not why I do it.<\/p>\n

Once I\u00a0had some fella come up to me in an airport while I was having a burger who reads my blog. He sat down and got into a conversation about the \u00a0state of the church and ended up whispering his confession right there in the restaurant and after I gave him a blessing the girl who was serving tables turns out to be an Egyptian\u2013a Coptic Christian\u2013and she asks for a blessing. Very sweet. Very pretty. So I gave her a blessing instead of a tip\u2026..<\/p>\n

\u2026no, not really. I gave her a good tip.<\/p>\n

Today I had two conversations with Baptists who are worried about the Muslims and the end of the world. After conversations I said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry. Just pray. pray pray!\u201d<\/p>\n

I sometimes pull my rosary out and say, \u201cThis is what I use to help me pray. I recommend it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe I should carry some extras with a little card of instruction. Anybody can pray the rosary or the Divine Mercy chaplet.<\/p>\n

At the snack bar an African American woman said, \u201cAre you a pastor?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I\u2019m a Catholic priest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m real worried about them Muslims. They hate us don\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I guess some of them do. But don\u2019t worry. He who is for us is greater than he who is against us.\u201d<\/p>\n

I then told her the wisecrack from Flannery O\u2019Connor, \u201cI don\u2019t think I could be a saint, but I could be a martyr if they killed me quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think she got the joke.<\/p>\n

What interests me is that Christians are one when the enemy is clear. I have written on this elsewhere in a post called \u201cThe Ecumenism of Blood\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Some Catholics tried to pick a fight with me over it\u2026holding out against all the Protestant heretics\u2026but they\u2019ll change their mind I guess when they\u2019re sitting in a detention camp with some Assembly of God types.<\/p>\n

Who knows, they might learn to sing praise and worship songs and teach the Holy Rollers how to pray the rosary.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the kind of ecumenism that makes my heart sing.<\/p>\n

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