Short video link: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Au8Bg9gs-gY Personal reflection: The Holy Catholic Church in her wisdom and tradition rightfully recognizes and honors that it takes a mother and father to raise a priest. Her son, as a newly ordained priest, bestows to his mother the maniturgium, the cloth which soaked up all the sacred chrism the bishop poured on her son’s hands when he was ordained. His son, as a newly ordained priest, bestows to his father the stole in which he heard his first confession. When his mother dies and is buried, the maniturgium is placed in his mother’s coffin, so that when she stands before God, she can show God that she offered God her son as a priest. When his father dies and is buried, the stole is placed in his father’s coffin, so that when he stands before God, he can show God that he offered God his son as a priest. The correct title of the short video should rightly read according to the holy tradition of the Catholic Church: “A man does not walk th...
