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To: Tax-chick

"I usually go to church Sunday evening at 5:00. That's when there are the most seats available at our very crowded parish!"

Well, that's certainly better than 5:00 pm on Saturday! After the Vatican II change to the vernacular, Dad used to call people who went to that Mass "Episcopalian Jews". :)


4 posted on 03/24/2007 3:30:12 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

Our 5:00 p.m. Saturday Mass is packed, plus we often have people at camp on Saturdays. (Tonight, Der Prinz and the little girls are at the Catholic Scouting whoop-up, having Mass with the Bishop.)

I actually like a Sunday morning service best, no later than 9:00 p.m., but there's not room for us unless we get there so early that the kids are impossible.


6 posted on 03/24/2007 3:33:39 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." ~ Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Kolokotronis; Tax-chick
Well, that's certainly better than 5:00 pm on Saturday! After the Vatican II change to the vernacular, Dad used to call people who went to that Mass "Episcopalian Jews". :)

The premise behind offering Mass on Saturday at 5pm was to accommodate those who work in the service industries - doctors, nurses, pilots, stewardesses, et al - whose jobs prevent them from attending liturgy on Sunday. It was never intended to replace Sunday worship. A natural outgrowth of this Saturday Mass has been the increase in attendance of other workers who wish to sleep in on Sunday morning. None of the above deserve to be labeled as "Episcopalian Jews".

12 posted on 03/24/2007 3:56:16 PM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: Kolokotronis

Well, if the mass were late enough it would be AFTER the sabbath.


64 posted on 03/25/2007 11:10:13 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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