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I belong to an Episcopal Church in CT. It’s just the opposite. They sermons are invariably based on the day’s readings. No politics has ever been mentioned by any of the four rotating ministers. I feel pretty good going there. The church is mostly made up of Catholics who go there to get away from the Catholic Church’s weekly begging for money and animosity towards its own parishioners.

"I belong to an Episcopal Church in CT. It’s just the opposite. They sermons are invariably based on the day’s readings. No politics has ever been mentioned by any of the four rotating ministers. I feel pretty good going there. The church is mostly made up of Catholics who go there to get away from the Catholic Church’s weekly begging for money and animosity towards its own parishioners."

What a nasty thing to say. This is a thread about the Episcopal Church. Your nasty, petty, unkind, remark was quite unnecessary.

If you have confession in your Episcopal Church, you might want to think about going.

The church is mostly made up of Catholics who go there to get away from the Catholic Church’s weekly begging for money...

LOL! I hear this all the time from disaffected Catholics, even some who attend the same Parish as I. I don't know how they get the notion that the Church is always begging for money. In my 24 years in this Parish, I've heard exactly three sermons suggesting that folks think seriously about supporting the Parish, and two of those were in the past five years when the Parish was planning to build an addition to the Church/School building.

There have been a couple of other times that the head of the Finance Committee gave a little talk after Communion, and just before the final blessing. Many were shocked to learn that the average 'offering' from among the 1800 families that received envelopes for contributions each year was a whopping $4. When they realized just how LITTLE was being given, some did increase their contributions, but it wasn't because of badgering, it was because they were gently encouraged to do so.

Sometimes there is a Second Collection, or a fundraiser for some organization or the other, but usually there is simply an announcement about it.

A message to these “Catholics” that attend the Episcopal church in Connecticut: “Good riddance!!!” The Episcopal church can have them.

They think nothing of spending $5 at Starbucks for coffee or $10 to see a lousy movie at the theater, but whine and complain when it comes to supporting their church on Sundays. Who do they think pays the heating and a/c bill, the priest’s salary and expenses, the janitor, the grounds keeper, cleaning supplies, the bread and wine, the religious education programs for the children, insurance, etc. etc.??? Don’t they realize everyone else has the extra burden of paying their way too?