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In the church my wife and I go to we have three priests. I know some will read that and say they wish they had one, but given a few logistics in the area three is probably about right for our size and needs.
Anyway, a few months ago my wife pointed something out and ever since she did I have seen it too....One of the priests never greets us in any informal way at the beginning of Mass.
No hello, or good morning, or welcome to St. Luke's Church, nothing.
Then I started noticing other priests, ones that would visit, ones from parishes I would be in because of travel or whatever...they all say hello and it really makes a difference!
The funny thing is that when I went to talk to the priest a month or so ago, a priest from my parish, I mentioned this to him and said maybe he could clue his fellow priest in. To my stunned amazement, he leaned in and told me, so no one could hear, that the other priest KNOWS this already. It has been mentioned to him not only by other priests, but by people that they have ran into in the street at town events. And what stunned me is that according to the priest I was talking to, he flattly refuses to do it and will not say why !
Now if this was some 80 year old man that was just set in his ways and saw the informality of church growing and feels this is his line in the sand, I would get it...but this is a man in maybe is late 40's at most.
I guess it is just that I think in today's world we need to make sure we keep the small things, the small polite things we all do, so we do not fall further. The other day I was walking out of a store and had my mind racing and a million miles away when someone held the door for me and, again I was somewhere else, I hurriedly said "excuse me" instead of "thank you". I got a sarcatsic YOUR WELCOME as I was walking away and I felt bad as it knocked me back here and I saw what I had done. So I walked back and apologized and said that in my haste I had not thanked him but excused myself in a mumble. The man was genuinely stunned I would come bck, but thanked me.

I guess all this is about is that maybe we all need to be a bit more aware how the small things mean alot. Because frankly I am turned off to this priest in anything he tells me in a sermon if he can not at least greet me.