{"id":27327,"date":"2012-12-05T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/a-marseille-priest-who-loves-h\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T07:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T11:53:16","slug":"a-marseille-priest-who-loves-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/a-marseille-priest-who-loves-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille priest who loves his vocation: start afresh from Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michel<\/a><\/p>\n

Can I say this?\u00a0I want every priest to be like Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine: a sign of\u00a0unlimited availability to Christ and to humanity.<\/p>\n

In Marina Corradi’s Avvenire<\/i> article “The Pope is\u00a0Right: Everything Must Start Afresh from Christ<\/b><\/a>,” (thanks to Sandro Magister for bringing\u00a0this article to our consideration) she portrays a French priest in way that is attractive and full of great humanity.<\/p>\n

Two paragraphs strike me as important\u00a0for us to reflect upon:<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u00a0“…he\u00a0affirms that a priest who has an empty church must examine himself and say: ‘It\u00a0is we who lack fire.’ He explains: ‘The priest is ‘alter Christus,’ he is\u00a0called to reflect Christ in himself. This does not mean asking perfection of\u00a0ourselves; but being conscious of our sins, of our misery, in order to be able\u00a0to understand and pardon anyone who comes to the confessional.\u2019”<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2022 “In church, he\u00a0welcomes everyone with joy: ‘Even the prostitutes. I give them communion. What\u00a0should I say? Become honest, before you enter here? Christ came for sinners,\u00a0and I have the anxiety, in withholding a sacrament, that he could bring me to\u00a0account for it one day. But do we still know the power of the sacraments? I\u00a0have the misgiving that we have excessively bureaucratized the admission to<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2022 baptism. I think of the baptism of my Jewish mother, which in terms of the\u00a0request of my grandfather was merely a formal act: and yet, even from this\u00a0baptism there came a priest.\u2019”<\/i><\/p>\n

His pastoral plan for those who ask the question\u00a0about returning to the practice of the faith: “the Marian embrace, and\u00a0impassioned apologetics, which touches the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

A man with\u00a0Russian-Jewish-Corisican-Italian blood, a singer-song writer, author (his\u00a0latest is Au diable la ti\u00e9deur, {To the devil with lukewarmness}), and now an\u00a0ordained Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Marseille<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Father Michel-Marie\u00a0Zanotti-Sorkine is pastor at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul<\/b><\/a> in Marseille.<\/p>\n

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Can I say this?\u00a0I want every priest to be like Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine: a sign of\u00a0unlimited availability to Christ and to humanity. In Marina Corradi’s Avvenire article “The Pope is\u00a0Right: Everything Must Start Afresh from Christ,” (thanks to Sandro Magister for bringing\u00a0this article to our consideration) she portrays a French priest in way that is attractive … Continue reading Marseille priest who loves his vocation: start afresh from Christ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2042,1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33654,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27327\/revisions\/33654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}