Posted on 11/18/2019 7:11:38 PM PST by marshmallow
Wave of church closings announced amid plunging participation
DUBLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Mass attendance in Ireland is down significantly but there is no consensus why.
On Friday, the Irish Independent reported that Mass attendance across Ireland has decreased by a third.
Bishop Dermot Farrell of the diocese of Ossory announced that Sunday Masses in the diocese will go from 140 to 92 beginning Dec. 1 since the diocese has more churches than needed.
"They were built in a different era, when there were very poor roads and no transport, so people had to walk to church. And you had far more going," he said. "Everybody practically has access to a car. We're celebrating these Masses in all of these churches with sometimes small congregations."
Farrell said that this has led to a shortage of resources across Kilkenny, Laois and Offaly parishes: "Therefore, you have a shortage of resources. You need ministers of the Eucharist, you need readers, you need collectors."
"It doesn't make sense to be splintering these things across multiple Masses that you don't actually need to accommodate people," he added.
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Great news.
Maybe they should try going to church.
Send a persecution and they will return
Maybe because the Pope is a Marxist pretender but that’s just a guess.
Gays, abortion, modern morality. The moral ills of Western Civilization have started to gain traction in the once devout land of my ancestors.
Bad Pope leadership
Check Quebec. Check France.
I have been an admirer of the many strengths of Catholicism.
But one weakness is that, when Protestants lose faith in their church, they shake the dust off their sandals and go to or create a different one. This is why Catholics can so often speak disparagingly of "27 000 denominations".
But when Catholics lose faith in THEIR church, a lot of them cease to be Christian at all.
Incomprehensible!
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“... a lot of them cease to be Christian at all. ”
Can you explain that?
To me, that REALLY IS incomprehensible.
Jim Noble wrote:
“”I have been an admirer of the many strengths of Catholicism.””
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name ONE and I will show you how its eternal spiritual death.
There’s no doubt that Bergoglio has accelerated the decline. The situation is analogous to a house that was dilapidated and slowly falling apart... and then in 2013, a drunk with a flamethrower stumbled in. And here we are.
The fact that this statement makes print makes me sad.
I am far from the perfect catholic, but I'm damn sure still a Christian.
Thank you Francis.
Very Easy.
My strength is my faith in God. There is nothing more profound in my life.
By far the number one reason for drop in religiosity for practically any denomination really is apathy. Theres so much more tv to watch and video games to play and meetings to attend to care as much about church. The rhythm of modern consumerist living just doesn’t support churchgoing like the closer knit family based society of yesteryear. I’d say antireligious sentiment and church bungling are distant secondary factors in religious decline and are almost as much consequences as they are causes as much as people believe otherwise. I think people are still about as religious in the generic sense as they ever were its just that traditional religions are now replaced by amorphous spirituality or worship of sjw causes like feminism. Old school religions might have a shot if they can figure out a better strategy than simply adapting every leftist philosophy as fast as possible.
onona wrote:
name ONE and I will show you how its eternal spiritual death.
Very Easy.
My strength is my faith in God. There is nothing more profound in my life.
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...and that’s the problem. If your strength depends on YOUR FAITH....and not Christs FINISHED WORK...
..all you have a polished up religion.
Take Christ....Lift Christ....Live Christ....
HE IS YOUR STRENGTH....not ‘your faith’
Can you see?
Amen. Through Him, with Him and in Him.
Don’t assume Onona doesn’t know all that......
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