Fr. Kyle Doustou

Roman Catholic Priest; Vicar General of the Diocese of Portland

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

The new (old) windows are going in at our new Newman Center today. Even as they depict the Lord’s suffering and death, they simultaneously blaze with color, light, and harmony. Hope breaks into gloom, beauty into chaos, life into death. A fitting allegory for our dark times...

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

They couldn't find a hat that said "Father." 😂 Very grateful for our team of extraordinary FOCUS missionaries!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@RobertH1947 @eequlsmcc42_ Yes. I apologize, although it wasn't what I meant to convey. I just sensed anger and frustration without a desire to engage. I can see how my response came across as snarky and condescending. Mea culpa!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

I was informed this evening that a healthy, curious, rambunctious child from one of our large faithful families knocked over one of our statues in our entryway this morning. His parents are mortified and embarrassed. I get it. But I'm smiling from ear to ear.

Why? Because our parish is alive! I love that we have children running around! More and more I'm competing with loud, fussy kiddos at Mass, and I love it! I don't rejoice in broken statues, of course, but if I'm going to have iconoclasts I'd rather them be children! And homes with kids have broken things.

Friends, our churches are *not* school houses or lecture halls. They are homes and hospitals. Sometimes they are quiet and prayerful, other times they are messy and loud. People clog our toilets, children break our statues, and others cry or cough so loud no one can hear the priest. I *don't* care. These walls and roofs exist for you to encounter your Eucharistic Lord, and for Him to encounter you...not so that we can all have a pristine Sunday experience.

Bring me your tired, your poor, your marginalized, your prayerful, your rambunctious. Bring them, without hestitation. The church is theirs, not mine!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@JohnZwicker1 Brilliant suggestion!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@santinavitalis @eequlsmcc42_ These are insane takes. Who's admiring disruptive behavior? Clearly you folks are triggered by something not happening.

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@eequlsmcc42_ Wow. You've got the prayers anyway. Have a nice day.

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@eequlsmcc42_ Prayers for you. I can tell you're going through something.

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@MRYdemd @RealTimHarris @upwardcalling The teen entered the seminary. I'd consider the statue more than replaced!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@sapphirefinch @lttlefoot He's very much okay!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@DoubtingDeacon I don't feel people are unable to be catechized into treating Mass reverently; quite the opposite. I do feel however there's precious little to be done about a catechizing a crying 2 year old or a coughing 80 year old.

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@SoMuchGreef Easy. They come every week for Mass and show up at everything else

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@RealTimHarris @upwardcalling I don't know you sir, but it seems like it's been a long time since you were a teenager. Calm down with the "effete" stuff and lighten up

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@upwardcalling Your teenager is worth more to the Church than all the statues in the world! I'd rather have a broken statue than a broken teen. Go do something special for him!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@lttlefoot Of course there is. We didn't do that ahead of time. Now we will!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@FrHilderbrand 100% Been through it once. Waiting it out is agonizing at best, deadly at worst. There's joy and life on the other side

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

Starting off Allhallowtide with a stark reminder. If I'm late for things, I'll just blame my mortality.

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@crousselle The answer is yes. Unhesitatingly, yes!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced for love of us, have mercy on us poor sinners. All of us. Each of us.

[Galahad, Light of the Aryans @GalahadofMalta]

PARIS OUTAGE

Light only at the Sacre Coeur church.

We cannot make this up!

[Fr. Kyle Doustou @FrKyleDoustou]

@RichRaho Like clockwork, Rich.