Posted on 12/21/2010 7:12:08 PM PST by Salvation
God is so good—I’m so happy you and your son have found a wonderful and holy priest!
I cried when I read the first part of your post—and happy you did not give up.
I will remember your story when I feel like giving up due to the snobbery of some of my fellow parishioners. (I guess because I don’t show up with my husband—who is Episcopalian—and with my son, they may be afraid to approach me?)
God bless you both and have a wonderful Christmas.
Amen. God will guide you.
As will all the Angels and Saints.
Last year after our yearly no tv other than EWTN for the whole Lenten Season and my sons dedication to the Divine Mercy I woke up early on Divine Mercy Sunday with SO much energy as to pack him up in his WC and drive 8hr round trip to attend the Divine Mercy Mass at The Grotto in Portland Oregon and it was Divine. : )
So I can relate to your journey. Perservere.
And we never know when the Good Sheppard is going to use us to be strength for a Priest in need.
Sometimes we never even know we were that vessel.
Ya’ll still have Midnight Mass in the Valley?
We are So excited to be able to Go the the Lords House tonight instead of him coming to ours.
Truth in bold Red. : )
Yes Thank God for EWTN.
Can you have Eucharist brought to your home from the local Parish? That is a service that is provided by the Church for the homebound/sick/disabled.
Give it a shot to see if you can get on the home visit even if it is only once a month.
Yes, South Minneapolis. I don't think anyone could pay me to get in on any more planning for such things. Maybe I'm getting two old to dodge the carpet bombing attacks from fellow parishoners.
Sanity exists in the certain knowledge that if our worst problem in life is where we will attend Mass, we have already lived a life way too successful by any normal human measurement.
My brother is extremely well connected at Church of the Visitation Parish that is now moribund. When he told me the boys at the Chancery told him the decision was subject to appeal I laughed at him and said the decision was final two years before the folks at Visitation were told they might be on the list.
He spent many hours working on an appeal that showed the long term viability of the parish. When he filed his appeal he said it took about six hours until the "Rejected" stamp landed on it.
I once bumped into my former pastor (at my barber's) who explained the decision to me several years after the fact. The reasons made perfect sense. I told him the STUPIDEST thing the Archbishop and the rest of those Chancery clowns did was leaving parishoners in early meetings with a scintilla of hope that they had any say in the matter. Do it now and let the healing process begin. That's a million times better than death by a thousand cuts.
As a johniegrad you must live in the neighborhood or once did.
No. Up near Two Harbors. Graduated from SJU in 1975.
“Since when?”
I don’t know when they started that here.
I read all the comments and thoroughly enjoyed the main article and most all of the comments. Thanks for the post. I could weigh in on this but the comments seemed to sort of migrate away from what I saw as the major theme of the article, i.e., what, if anything can be done to increase participation. I have some serious thoughts on that subject but I don’t believe posting them here would do much good. I just pray that perhaps the truth will come to light and the Bishops and Priests will come to realize that with a few simple changes in focus, Roman Catholics could make some great strides going forward.
Have a wonderful and joyous Christmas.
I can get the Eucharist at home. Will be making lots of phone calls next week to see if the parishes closer to me can arrange a ride occasionally for Mass.
Went to Mass in Beijing........PACKED. Went to Mass in Shanghai STANDING ROOM ONLY (close ciruit TV to handle the overflow).
Merry Christmas to ALL.
We went to the midnight Mass last night and the Tabernacle was moved back to the center!!!!!!
Merry Christmas!
Deo Gratias!
wonderful!
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