I’ll call any person I want Father as I have every priest I have ever come across in my life.
I am honored to be able to call a man ordained to the priesthood and who has taken his vows Father.
I’m really not interested in your ineffectual cut and paste protestantism.
Not interested in rote.
Btw got to go back to work
do you work?
Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam
It's not Protestantism.
It's JESUS' own words out of the Bible that the Catholics here keep telling us the Catholic church wrote. You know. The words that Catholics keep telling us they hold in such high esteem, higher than Prots do?
The words they then go on to choose to blatantly ignore.
Matthew 23:1-12
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.
But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.