During my very long now roaming service to the people God, I had the opportunity to accompany a number of men or women in search of true happiness. So this week, two women seeking exchange time with a priest about their specific situation.
Two solutions: get a horrified reaction, let them know politely, very quickly, they are in a deadlock, or accept to listen, allow them to express why they are there and what path, what means they give to see more clearly, in their choices and their lives.
I think you would all have been like me: we took a long time-sharing, which I can not reveal content. But there's nothing like listening to people no longer want to condemn them. Warning! This does not mean we accept everything that is no longer any distinction between marriage and homosexual union! But I think as a priest, I had to lay the groundwork for a possible dialogue.
Firstly, I had to avoid situate myself as a judge over these people, and ensure the quality of my hearing and my vision. It was not homosexual before me, like a book where everything is clear: the evil and the good left to right! Beside me, it was not even two women I could have locked up in the category "homosexual" or, worse, that I could consider as public sinners. It was simply two people who came to a human representative of God. To check what? Welcoming, listening, sharing, forgiveness, call to growth, strength of God, prayer, peace, and means to see things more clearly and move forward. Any human relationship
indeed, whether homo or hetero, is called to be a place for growth in humanity. While the questioning and listening in relation to the motivations of their choice, I told them that on the religious level, there was no basis to exclude from the Christian community or to qualify a priori sinners. Neither more nor less than each of us. Do we exclude from the Church who cheats on his wife or one who refuses to share a little of his wealth or his time with people in trouble? Yet this too is not it also very serious? Because even if everything is not put on the same plane, let us not shy too soon face our own failures, because of the beam in our eye!
I do not want to excuse or justify anything, but there is a word of the great moral theologian, the Salesian of Don Bosco Xavier Thevenot, who has always struck when he writes that he met gay Christians whose faith and evangelical quality of life was evident. This comment is to me full of promise and hope. But it is necessary that these people are with her, and within the Church, people who are willing to change their look and to assist them in this particular life choices they have made, for reasons which could also enlighten us about the trial that we can address them.
These two women are very religious, our meeting ended with a prayer for a good quarter of an hour, reading a biblical passage. With the Holy Spirit with us to accompany them now!
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