{"id":4435,"date":"2010-05-23T21:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/05\/kiss-the-hand.html"},"modified":"2010-05-23T21:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:38:52","slug":"kiss-the-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/05\/kiss-the-hand.html","title":{"rendered":"Kiss the hand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Z. posted this anecdote<\/a> from a reader. I’d be curious to hear if anybody has seen or experienced something similar: <\/p>\n

\nI’m a consultant manager at a department store and my job consists of walking around and assisting customers and getting feedback about our store. I noticed an older gentleman in a plaid oxford and slacks sitting in my favorite patio-furniture chair, so I went over to ask him if he loved it as much as I did. Over the course of the conversation it came out that he was an Irish priest visiting, and I had been a seminarian for four years.<\/p>\n

We discussed a few things but as soon as I found out that he was a priest, my attitude changed noticeably, so sayeth a co-worker. When Father rose to leave, he shook my hand, and out of habit, I kissed it, and Father began to weep. He told me that no one had kissed his hand in thirty years, and it suddenly “brought forth what a priest, in his dignity, really is.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve only seen the faithful kiss the hands (rings) of bishops, never priests. Anybody else?  Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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