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I can personally vouch for the authentic Catholic spirituality of the priests quoted in the article from the Savannah diocese. Fr. Tim Donahue is my current pastor here at the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Augusta and Fr. Brett Brannen was his predecessor before his move to Mt. St. Mary's Seminary. And for what it's worth, a large chunk of the recent vocations in this diocese have come from this one parish.

Men in their early 40s who are Catholic in every sense.

9 posted on 01/12/2007 2:31:48 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow; NYer

I hope I get this attribution correct. I believe it was Fr. John Corapi (but it could have been Fr. John Trigilio) who said that the success of a Parish is measured in two easily determined statistics:

1-How many people attend Confession each Saturday?

2-How many vocations has the Parish given the Church in the past Decade?

The point was that one could take an average 6 page Church bulletin and get rid of 99% of the Collection total, Father Says...., the adverts, who is selling what and when and so on and predict how Catholic a Parish truly is by these two lines of print.

Judging by the criterion I mentioned, marshmallow, the Parish you mention is a Powerhouse of God! I'd wager Confession is also very well attended.


16 posted on 01/12/2007 4:20:27 PM PST by Frank Sheed ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." --G.K. Chesterton)
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