[OpusatFR]

There is also walking around and chatting, patting someone's back while yakking, and banging on a guitar while singing as loudly as possible blocking any attempt for parishioners to silently pray after recieving the Eucharist. And this is why I left our ~Catholic Center~ (notice it was not called a church.)

Our recently (forcibly) retired actively homosexual priest liked this type of chaos, I think.

Boy, oh boy, I guess that's another one for the confessional....but that is absolutely truthful even if it is uncharitable.

[fortunecookie]

There is also walking around and chatting, patting someone's back while yakking, and banging on a guitar while singing as loudly as possible blocking any attempt for parishioners to silently pray after recieving the Eucharist. And this is why I left our ~Catholic Center~ (notice it was not called a church.)

Sounds familiar. This is the new experience. Many of us remember the old, even post Vat II experience of prayer and quiet and reverence (oh, there's that word again..) and music that was remotely religious. During a previous schismatic period in our local parishes, we got all new signs. They read Church. Not Catholic, not Roman. One attempt at replacement read Catholic. Attendance and donations fell way off - the signs now read Roman Catholic.