https://rexcz.blogspot.com/2020/03/warriors-never-get-old-2020_83.htmlWarriors Never Get Old (2020)March 8th, 2020
Your Excellency, first things first, let me express my cordial congratulations to you on the occasion of your 80th anniversary! May Our Lord bless you and Our Lady protect you! I also thank you for saving some time to answer a few questions.
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REX!: First question is rather predictable: How do you feel being 80 years old?
BpW: Quite honestly, a little weary, but my health is better than I deserve. It is bound to deteriorate, of course, but it may hold up for a few years yet. As God wills...
REX!: If there was a chance to change any of your key decisions in life, would there be any? And if yes, which and why? Or are you, in fact, satisfied how things went?
BpW: Good question! I certainly do not think that I did everything perfectly, far from it, but I do not think I have to regret any of the major decisions. Certainly I do not regret having accepted the vocation to the priesthood. In the Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta, Our Lord says at one point that the priest’s life is “tiring, luminous, happy.” That is what I have found it to be. Thanks be to God.
REX!: What is your memory of celebrating your first Holy Mass ever, as well as your first Holy Mass as a Bishop?
BpW: To tell the truth, neither occasion stands out in my memory, although I do remember them both. They do not stand out, partly because whenever emotion may be involved, many an Englishman will have a powerful fireman’s hose on hand to keep things cool. So both events for me were “cool”.
Holy Mass, March 8th, 2020, London
REX!: How do you see your role for the next future? You are still travelling intensively around the globe fulfilling your duties of a Bishop, you are issuing your weekly “Comments”, advising people, corresponding with many souls etc. Do you not plan to limit some of your activities, e.g. travelling?
BpW: I definitely need to be slowing down, so I plan to be travelling less. I am getting more and more distracted. I cannot remember what I did five minutes ago! I maintain that it is the pressure of the pre-apocalyptic Church crisis, but a little birdie on my shoulder tweets that it is just plain old age!
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