Receive Before You Govern
You have crossed the threshold. The Church entrusted to you is Christ’s before she is yours, and He has not ceased to govern her. What follows is a path for receiving the office anew — not a strategy, but a recollection of what the episcopate is for: the sanctification of the people of God, beginning with the shepherd himself.
A Suggested Path
- How You See God Determines Everything Begin with sight. Fear disguises itself as prudence when God is seen wrongly.
- The Saints God Sends How God has in fact renewed the Church: He raises up saints, and the remedy is fitted to the wound of the age.
- Fatherhood A diocese is not a territory to be managed. It is a particular Church to be fathered.
- Holiness All pastoral initiatives must be set in relation to holiness — the rule of ecclesial judgment.
- The Family A subject of the Church’s action, never merely the object of her programs — the first seminary in every diocese.
- Path to Renewal Novo Millennio Ineunte and Pastores Gregis as the sure guide.
- Causality Seeing the inversion: when secondary goods quietly become governing goods.
- Abba: A Thirty-Three Day Retreat A concrete first step for priests and parishes in your care: a thirty-three day return to the Father.