Priest Podcast

Father Mike led me into his office where there was a great restored organ.  Father Mike has known he wanted to be a Priest since being a young boy.  He is the oldest of 9 children! He spoke about separating out the role from the rest of your life.  He loves visiting his family up North.  He moved to Lake Orion at 15 and now has come home as the Pastor.  He loves having a school at the Parish and enjoys celebrating the Children's Liturgy.  Although it does mean more work. One item that resonated with me is that Father let me know he has all financial responsibility for the Parish including the school.  The analogy is that he is CEO of a multi million enterprise.  And Father Mike is an English major (He also was a competitive racquetball player for 30 years!).  Of course he has a lot of help from his parishioners. In regards to the homily, at the seminary he was taught to have the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other.  Father Mike does a lot of prep and hand writes all his homilies and weaves in cur