Exactly, HiTech. Thank you.
However that doesn’t mean that people can’t appeal to their conscience to persuade it of something it may not have fairly weighed.
Often we fail to see opportunities to change pictures in a way that still honors time tested truths. And when we do, we wonder why we never seem to be getting off the dime.
It actually sounds like an accommodation was found. He wasn’t an official part of the church service, so nobody could even be confused.
The Baptist churches of old had something they called a mourner’s bench, for people who wanted to publicly say, right then and there without prearrangement, that they intended to let God remake their lives anew. Others have different methods of doing this. Is there such a thing in the Catholic worship system? It sounds like they want to keep it private. I’d think people should have the option. If I were a pastor approached by a person like this, I would ask him, would you like to dedicate your life to the Lord at the service for Him to make it new? And if he said yes... I might bring him into the service, have him give a testimony in accordance with what he had earlier said... and then let him sing, and the congregation would applaud at the end.