By the prayers of our Holy Fathers Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on us and save us.
Today Fr.Roberto politely asked me to ease up on my search for female companion ship within the parish and mission. I appreciate his loving care for his flock, but I found his criticism to be, ill informed, prejudice, and hypocritical. It started out as a "an opportunity to sit down and chat", and ended with an ultimatum. I didn't feel that he cared at all to understand ME, and may even figure he already, knows ME. I admit that for several reasons it hurt. 1) I found that it was an over reaction, considering the 3 women involved 2) a double standard, one of those young ladies has gone on to another relationship within the community (agreed, a man much better than me). 3) He exemplified to me that he has'nt forgiven me, and there were irresponsable attempts to provoke guilt and shame. I say this in anger of course, and consider Fr.Roberto to be amongst the most caring and considerate men I've met, and the misison as a perfect example of a few committed people making the kinds of change nessecary for helping bring fullfillment to other peoples lives who would otherwise be neglected. He invited me to spend more time at the mission and be a comfort and companion to the lonely there, and when my anger subsides I will take him up on that. As far as the young ladies, we have to learn to walk, if we fall down a few times, we have to get back up. So, I've decided to put on a nice shirt and learn a couple of dances, the Rumba or something like that! In conclusion,
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