- Title: A Priest Forever and No More
- Author: John P. Egan
- Publisher: Fragile Twilight Press
- Form: Paperback
- Illustrated: ---
- Number of Pages: 149
- ISBN: 0-9631101-3-6
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Review:
Jack
Egan was ordained a priest in May of 1960. In his first three years he worked in
a parish in Lodi, New Jersey. For 2½ years he worked in parishes in Honduras
and Panama.
Jack
spent nearly 20 years in an inner city parish, in Jersey City, NJ, working with
mostly Latino people. During that time, he engaged in much non‑violent
activity around the issues of justice and peace. A book called Baptism of Resistance, Blood and Celebration, written with Paul D.
Colford of Newsday, NY, and published by Twenty Third Publications, Mystic, CT,
recounts many stories surrounding that non‑violent activity.
After disassociation from the ordained
priesthood in April, 1985...
“The
illusory power over people, greatly fed by the ordained priesthood, was finally
gone.
“And
there kicked in, without interference, the service dimension, the only valid
one, of being priest. After all is said and done, serving, loving, caring with
no contrived power over people, is what being priest is all about. And what,
this writer believes, we are all meant to be about! If we wish to live deeply,
qualitatively and joyously.”
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