Rev. Father Jack Sapa, Very Briefly

Father Jack Sapa is walking tall since the issue on sexual misconduct hit  Minglanilla.  He goes around his assignments in the Parish like a lamb having to say nothing about the details of the case and the steps being taken by Team Moderator Father Jojo Deligero.

I have not much info about Father Jack except those that I gather from personal observation each time he offers mass in our Ward Chapel.

If Archbishop Palma decides to re-organize the Team of Pastors, I should want Father Jack to stay and continue his services to the community.  If I may have to make more choices, my next would be Father Oscar Ornopia then Father Joey Belcina.  But if His Excellency wants the Team changed, I could only pray that Father Jack will be made part of it, finally.

Father Jack is of a Napoleonic stature, not as robust as Romulo, not as popular as Mickey Rooney or our own Berting Labra.  To assign an animal to him, I would give Father Jack, the Jackal minus its quarrelsome trait.

A Jackal is an animal that is heavily persecuted by farmers and persecution is a daily bread of men in robes.  It is monogamous, social, resourceful and fearless.  Father Jack may have exercised these traits with reserve due to his position but he is married only to the Church. 

He is a few of those who show consistency to Church Regulations such as the wearing of appropriate dress for church goers and communicants.   He checks them out fatherly so to speak although I have yet to hear him say something about the compulsory wearing of veils and the superiority of receiving communion by the tongue.

His fiery speeches would never fail to illuminate one’s thoughts, even exposes one’s hidden craze.  He draws the attention of the church goers by trumpeting ideas using simple expressions.  He is perhaps the only cohen in Minglanilla that is inexpensive to keep which means he has but simple needs. 

Father Jack would always want to leave home after Mass in he Chapels not because he is acting indifferently but he has yet to prepare for his next duty and needed more relaxation and a good rest.  Of course there are other things I ought to know about him and this would probably happen when our agendas come together for a good cause or if someone true shares me the information.

Let us pray for our Priests.