Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Truth666
Unfortunately, Truth, many of today's Catholics "attending mass" don't care. They waltz into the architecturally trendy buildings bubbling over with personal conversations as if they knew there was nothing important going to happen within the next hour.

In the summer they wear shorts and meander up where one of the lay distributors will lay a Host in their hand and they mechanically shove It into their mouth while singing the "communion hymn" which is taken out of a Protestant hymnal.

Nobody hangs back in the pew because everybody is in possession of a soul recently cleansed of sin through the giving of a good confession and receiving absolution.

31 posted on 05/27/2004 9:49:02 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies ]


To: JesseHousman

Don't blame the Protestants for the lousy hymns in Catholic churches. As a convert, I relish the rare old Protestant hymn when I come across them in a Catholic church -- it is much better and more reverent than the usual saccharine bromides that constitute modern Catholic music, e.g., "Gifts of Finest Wheat", "On Eagles' Wings", etc., etc.


71 posted on 05/27/2004 1:54:23 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson