{"id":3186,"date":"2019-06-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2019-05-20T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:42:20","slug":"please-dont-be-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/please-dont-be-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Please, Don\u2019t Be Boring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe title=\"Please, Don\" t=\"\" be=\"\" boring!=\"\" 6=\"\" 1=\"\" 19'=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/kcvy5-b1c47a?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/kcvy5-b1c47a?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u><em>Do you like church, Mother?&#8221;<\/em> asked 5-year-old Jimmy, as they left church on Sunday<\/u>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Of course, I do. I love my church. Don&#8217;t you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>&#8220;I like the singing and I like the friendly people and I do like the priest, but sometimes I don&#8217;t know what he says,\u201d <\/em>replied the boy.<br \/><em><br \/>&#8220;Do you mean that you don&#8217;t understand the sermon?&#8221; <\/em>asked the surprised mother.<em> &#8220;I think he talks quite plainly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>&#8220;Oh, I know the children&#8217;s stories he tells all right, but many of the words I don&#8217;t know. So I start thinking about other things,\u201d <\/em>said the boy<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>&#8220;Tell you what,&#8221;<\/em> said the mother. <em>&#8220;Next Sunday you write down each word that you don&#8217;t understand, as best you can write it, and I&#8217;ll try to explain them. We will make a game of it. I will give you a quarter for each word that is new, but you can only collect once for that word because by the next Sunday you should know what it means.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>Jimmy was right. Strange words that go unexplained drive the listener to thinking about other things, especially the young who come to church. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><u>It is up to the priest, the clergy person or the teacher to bring understanding, knowledge, truth and inspiration to those who have come to worship, to learn and to listen<\/u>. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Today, June 1st I celebrate my 50 years as a priest at Holy Family Parish Community in Inverness, Illinois. People often ask me why did I want to become a priest. One reason was that I wanted to help people and becoming a priest would allow me to do that.<\/strong>   <em><u>A God Provide<br \/><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Another big reason I wanted to be a priest was that for 25 years of growing up, I was bored most of the time by the message that I heard in church. I vowed and I prayed that if and when I ever got ordained, I would say a lot of things, but I would not be boring. <\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong><em><u>I may be a bit long-winded at times, but only a few people have nodded off and fallen asleep on me<\/u>! <u>For this I give praise and glory to God<\/u>!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558352346_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}