{"id":27382,"date":"2013-01-03T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/can-working-for-the-church-be\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T08:46:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:46:27","slug":"can-working-for-the-church-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/can-working-for-the-church-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Can working for the Church be a good thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas bounce around my head about working for the Church if one is not a member of the clergy or a religious order. Some of my friends would say, &#8220;Why bother?&#8221; There&#8217;s some truth in this attitude. There&#8217;s a lot of problems with working in the Church these days and not all of it regarding pay. Let&#8217;s just say, working for the Church can be a great place to use your talent for Someone greater and for eternal consequences. Experience tells me that church-working need not be a sad, hostile, dysfunctional place to spend one&#8217;s life. BTW, what I say is not only for the laity because the clergy have the same issues.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I wonder if working for the Church could be:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>a great place to work at; a fun place to work, a welcoming, loving &amp; fulfilling culture<\/li>\n<li>a place where a good use of technology possible for the Gospel (tech is hot these days)<\/li>\n<li>a place to network with Catholics (Christians and &#8220;seekers&#8221;) to propose a new lens of life<\/li>\n<li>time available to see how your work affects lots of people<\/li>\n<li>a place that will teach you something new<\/li>\n<li>pay and perks that strive to be competitive<\/li>\n<li>a place where the employees are happy<\/li>\n<li>have opportunities for spiritual development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>There&#8217;s a lot that&#8217;s wrong with the way the Church works in the world today. Many dioceses, indeed, the Holy See and the Vatican, have effectively disaffected people because a lack of humanity, courage, love, compassion and faith. What comes to mind, is that working for the Church ought to be a place where the glory of God is man and woman fully alive working for something Greater: salvation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If business is working on these matters, why not the Church? The proclamation of the Gospel and a sacramental life ought to take on best practices of the business world. I pray for the grace of knowing my own need for conversion, fraternity, vocation and mission. We all need a place to exercise a God-given diakonia and martyria (service and witness).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saint John, beloved friend of the Lord, pray for us.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas bounce around my head about working for the Church if one is not a member of the clergy or a religious order. Some of my friends would say, &#8220;Why bother?&#8221; There&#8217;s some truth in this attitude. There&#8217;s a lot of problems with working in the Church these days and not all of it regarding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/can-working-for-the-church-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can working for the Church be a good thing?<\/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":[16],"tags":[1906,1907,1821],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382"}],"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=27382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}