We keep the MASS in Christmas!
Hi, pew-sitters!
The Catholics Come Home organization is running TV ads inviting Catholics to remember the Church as their true home this Christmas. Take a look at their Website
http://www.catholicscomehome.org/this-advent/index.php
When you watch the video, click on full-screen --- it’s lovely!
A national advertising campaign aimed at bringing 1 million wayward Catholics back into the fold is swinging into action. Viewers got a glimpse Tuesday night during the NBC Nightly News.
The ads, launched by the non-profit lay effort Catholics Come Home, will run on major networks, cable and satellite services through Jan. 8. This national campaign is a first-of-its-kind television evangelization effort on behalf of the Catholic Church.
Local ad campaigns have resulted in 300,000 Catholics returning to the Church, 92,000 in the Diocese of Phoenix alone.
These TV ads are scheduled to air on CBS, NBC, Univision, TBS, USA, TNT, CNN, and FoxNews, during such shows as “60 Minutes,” “NCIS,” “Kennedy Center Honors,” “NBC Nightly News,” “The Today Show,” “O’Reilly,” and in all major college football bowl games airing on Dish Network.
Want to do something neat? Put the ad on your Facebook page. Send some spare change to Catholics Come Home on their website. And let’s pray for all those who come home to the Church this Christmas.
I thought you might enjoy giving this a little push. To me, it’s so exciting and hopeful. And yes, I’m putting it on my Facebook page!
Merry Christmas --- and see you at Mass!
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[signed]
Merry Christmas to you!
Have seen the ad a couple of times. It makes me happy and I hope other Catholics who have fallen away are like me and find their way home.
We’ve got extra missalettes and cue cards with the new translations all fixed up for our overflow room that will seat about 40. Otherwise, people will fill out vestibule (about 30) and after that — line the walls.
I wonder why we are in the process of designing a new church. Haven’t gotten to the Capital Campaign part of it yet.
Many years ago one could enter a Catholic Church in Hamburg, Milano, Positano, Marbella, or anyplace in the world and understand what was happening: THE MASS. After all, Catholic means universal!
Today, a Novus Ordo Catholic hasn’t a clue what is going to happen when he travels from his neighborhood church in the Bronx to San Juan Capistrano: it’s all different. The environment in many cases is different. No more soaring gothic-style columns and vaulted ceilings; rather, it’s a place that rather resembles an aircraft hanger.
Peering about there isn’t a hint that this is a Catholic Church. There is no tabernacle, visible confessional, pictures, statues of the saints.....why this could be a Seventh Day Adventist meeting place.
Now the Vatican, as a sequel to Vatican II has changed the religion once more. The mass and prayers have been rewritten and parishioners once more struggle through something new that replaced something old, but something that was good enough for over 1,000 years!
The mass was guaranteed in perpetuity but that made no difference to the modernists. They threw baby and bathwater through the stained-glass windows. They were killing Christ’s Church on earth and will have a great deal of explaining to do before they learn their eternal fate.
Wonderful, Mrs. Don-o.
Wishing you and Don-o a most blessed Christmas and New Year!