A few days ago, an interview with a priest appeared on the channel of Marcin Osman, an entrepreneur who publishes content on business, sales and marketing. One of the issues discussed in the conversation was the price of a church wedding. Father Paweł Potoczny revealed that a couple asked him how much they had to pay for administering this sacrament. At first the priest replied “whatever you please”, but the couple started asking for details. “Let the priest tell you,” the priest heard from them.
The priest told me how much he charges for the wedding. “If there is no alcohol, I will give it to you for free”
The priest decided to give a specific answer, but no one probably expected such a choice of words. – Do you seriously want to know how much the wedding will cost? All right. How much do you spend on alcohol for your wedding? – the priest recalled the conversation. When the couple, after some consideration, gave the expected amount, the priest replied: “It’s half that.” “They look at me surprised: ‘That’s a lot!'” – he said.
And I say, if there is no alcohol at your wedding, I will give you (wedding – ed.) for free. And no one ever asked me again: ‘How much for the wedding?’
– summed up Paweł Potoczny, who also runs a public account on Instagram under the name “Married Priest”. The answer was strictly humorous and intended to emphasize that the priest is not demanding and does not attach importance to how much the couple will pay him for the wedding. That’s why he kept repeating ‘whatever you want’, and when that didn’t help, he decided to use the ‘surprise method’.
However, not everyone liked it. There was a heated discussion in the comments about how much priests should charge for marrying. “Holy sacraments should be free!” – said one of the commenters on a fragment of the interview published on Instagram. “Smart guy. If he’s paying for the wedding, let him give me the receipt. It should be free!” – added another person.
And how much taxes are paid for ‘whatever’?
Or maybe just for free? Church fund from taxes?
Receipt or invoice?
Of course I’ll pay half of what I pay for alcohol, even 3/4, I’ll just ask for an invoice
– we could read in selected entries. “What a mercy, and then the priest is offended because he didn’t get enough and he has a lot of money, I’ve heard such miracles from people that it gives me a headache. The same for a funeral, your mother will die, your wife and children will die, you have no money for food, “whatever you like, but not less than PLN 600,” said another Internet user.
The priest told me how much I had to pay for the wedding. “He didn’t take anything from us”
However, not everyone expressed critical opinions. “The priest told us that we were young and had a lot of money and the money would be more useful to us than to him, and we would have to pay the organist anyway, so he didn’t take anything from us. And there wasn’t a gram of alcohol at the wedding,” she shared. one of the Instagram users with her experience.
There were also commentators who noticed that the priest did not mean anything bad. He just wanted to show his approach to these types of questions.
Objectively speaking, the priest didn’t say anything bad. And scrolling through the comments for a few minutes, I didn’t find a single comment that wasn’t hate. I really admire the priest’s determination in running the channel
– wrote another person.
Source: Gazeta
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