Caxito, 14 February, 2024 / 9:25 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Clergy and Consecrated persons deserve some respect from the faithful, Bishop Maurício Agostinho Camuto of Caxito Diocese in Angola has said.
In his homily during the final profession of five members of the Congregation of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing (OSB) in Angola, Bishop Camuto decried utterances and acts that show disrespect for the Clergy and women and men Religious, including gossiping about them.
“We often hear people say, ‘Oh, the Priest is also a man like the others’; or, ‘The nun is also a woman like the other women!’ No. That's not true,” he said during the February 11 Eucharistic celebration at St. Monica Kikolo Parish of Caxito Diocese.
A member of the Clergy or a Consecrated person, he went on to say, “is not just any man or woman; he or she is a man or woman chosen by God.”
“Some even dare to say, ‘I could be a Priest’, or, ‘I could be a Nun if I wanted to’. No, you will never be a Priest or a Nun if you merely wanted to,” the Angolan member the Congregation of the Holy Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CSSp/Spiritans/Holy Ghost Fathers) said.
