Basement Priest - Boos M. Afr, John
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The last few years in my basement flat, apart from leaving it to help out in the parishes of Scarborough in Toronto and those of Durham of Ontario Province, have helped me to reflect on many issues, most of them concerning Faith, its acceptance or rejection by today's secular culture, and how its very common misrepresentations could be corrected and clarified. I had to begin by understanding myself. Born in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1937, to a working-class family, I have lived through what may have been perhaps the most fantastic and important 80 years of all human history. World War l…mehr

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The last few years in my basement flat, apart from leaving it to help out in the parishes of Scarborough in Toronto and those of Durham of Ontario Province, have helped me to reflect on many issues, most of them concerning Faith, its acceptance or rejection by today's secular culture, and how its very common misrepresentations could be corrected and clarified. I had to begin by understanding myself. Born in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1937, to a working-class family, I have lived through what may have been perhaps the most fantastic and important 80 years of all human history. World War l (1914-1918) saw my family involved, and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) welcomed me into the world. This was followed by World War ll (1939-1945), the Cold War (1945-1989), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnamese War (1956-1975), the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the moon landings (1969 et seq), the Encyclical Humanae Vitae (1968), the Sexual Revolution (1965-1977), years during which hundreds of millions were killed and/or displaced, new nations were born, border lines were re-drawn, political philosophies directed how nations were to live-and I am still alive, even in these ongoing nuclear and electronic ages! The past 80 years have seen the rise and fall of big and small dictators-Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Idi Amin, Mugabe, and the super-important papacies of Pius Xll, John XXlll, Paul Vl, John-Paul ll, and Benedict XVl. Everything being considered, a most interesting time. But . . . This 21st century didn't happen by itself; it has been formed by the preceding centuries, their histories, philosophies, wars, and their immense cultural changes. How will it affect the succeeding ones? My primary and secondary educations were followed by legal studies, resulting in my admission to the Bar in 1975, which was upgraded in 1987. I left the profession of law for various reasons, joined the Society of Missionaries of Africa in 1963, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1970. There followed 50 most interesting years as a missionary in Africa and other countries, and at the present moment my superiors have allowed me to remain in semi-retirement to aid the Archdiocese of Toronto. The issues of these reflections concern mainly Faith and religion as understood by my Church, and thus this book is both catechetic and apologetic, no holds barred. The use of the Bible is necessary and recommended. Due to the proximity of some of the themes, there's a bit of necessary repetition here and there, but all are my way of trying to find the "big picture," to "smell the roses," as it were. I trust the reader will enjoy them as much as I did in putting them together. Fr John Boos MAfr
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Fr. John Boos was born in Trinidad in 1937, began studying law there after his high school years, continuing further studies later on in the UK. After qualifying there as a solicitor, but before being admitted to the legal bar, he joined the Catholic Order of the Missionaries of Africa, studying in Ireland, England and France. He was ordained priest in Trinidad in 1970, and after five years of primary missionary evangelization work in Burkina Faso, West Africa, he returned to Trinidad on vacation. There he received his admission to the bar in 1975, and on his return to Africa was later upgraded, in his absence, to attorney-at-law in 1987.His missionary work continued on his return to Africa, from 1975 until 1992, when he was appointed to Mexico to assist in promoting missionary vocations among the young people of both sexes. A needed year of rest followed his return to the UK in 2000, and from 2002-2004 he was engaged again in promotion work, both in Burkina and in adjoining Togo to the south of Burkina. He was then sent to Canada as vocation promoter from 2004-2007, when he was appointed to Algeria in North Africa. Family obligations caused his return to Canada in 2008, where he remained after their cessation. He was then appointed to assist in the parishes of the Toronto and Durham regions of Ontario, which he has been doing to this year, 2023.Although not being a parish priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto, Fr. John has continued his priestly vocation of celebrating Mass in over twenty parishes, performing baptisms, marriages, and funerals-both in the churches and in retirement homes-counselling, visiting parishioners at home, giving the occasional conference to assorted groups, like the Knights of Columbus, the Women's League, youth, etc.He has also been engaged in putting his experiences and observations into print through his reflections of fifty-four years of ordained life, and to this date has produced three books. The first was on world history, seen through the eyes of a fantasy beast (The Unicorn, a historical fantasy, Friesen Press). The second concerns snippets of his missionary life (Into Africa, Tellwell Publishing), and the third is about his reflections on the world and Catholic life (Basement Priest, Tellwell Publishing). This fifth is similar to the preceding, being unabashedly catechetic and apologetic, both qualities seen as necessary because of the pervading endemic need of clarity concerning the good news of Jesus and its importance in our lives.