Back when I was first engaged, I decided that I wanted my former pastor, and family friend, to preside over my wedding mass. Because I currently live 1200 miles away from where the wedding will take place, my mother has been helping me with finding vendors, tracking people down, etc.
In my home church, the resident priest will only do one wedding a day, and another wedding was already booked for the same day I've chosen, so in order to book my mass, I needed to have my priest (no longer at my parish) call the rectory. Trying to be helpful, my mother tracked him down at his new church, but he said he would only book if I called him. This was the week before Easter and he said that I needed to get a hold of him before Holy Week started, as he would be busy with church preparations.
I left him three voicemails, and he finally called back on that Thursday. I was working, so he left a voicemail saying that because Holy Week had started he wouldn't be able to do anything until the next Monday. I have been calling him several times a week since then, leaving voicemails and messages with the secretary. I called tonight to find he's been transferred to another parish, and he STILL hasn't called me back.
I am hurt that he hasn't bothered to try to contact me again, and worried that if I don't find a new priest soon that I am going to miss out on the date I want. Do I find a new priest? If so, how do I go about finding a priest that I've never met at a parish that I've never been to that's going to want to do my wedding at my parish?
August siggy challenge-Me and my MOH :-)
