Father, I have a special group of friends who want to come to church on Sunday and have services with us every Sunday when we do in this church. They also want to take communion when when do. They are Baptist Father. They want to come to church at our church even though they have no intention of becoming Catholic nor adapting to the laws and teachings of the church. They want to be Baptist Catholics and want church laws written to accomidate them.
Father, is this not the House of The Lord and everyone is welcome to enter and worship? Then why can not my friends come in and worship with us in the way they please and by their customs and laws inside our church during our services?
I can imagine his response would be church law forbids this. I would remind him U.S. law forbids illegal entry or fraudulent entry to the United States and that most who came here in previous generations did not come here to be what they left behind. Rather when one comes to the U.S. tho stay they come to be an American and abide in our laws and customs. Just as a person enters a Catholic Church and ask to join they should follow the church laws and stop being Baptist at that point. Should they not follow the rules and laws?
A solution written by a Baptist :>} Seriously though if it violates your conscience to go I simply would not go. Attend two services next week instead. Or use your church time this week to visit the sick etc.
Illegals...seize their property and deport them.
Go and stand up and speak out against rewarding bad behavior.
Or suggest to your priest that he take his business to Mexico, maybe be a missionary if his conscience so prompts him. I don't know why more Catholics who are so hot for the drug cartels to move their business north of the border don't just move their churches *south*!!
It didn’t happen at my church tonight. The homily was on the Gospel.
Raise hell during mass and walk out. Any respect the church has had is long gone with their march towards liberalism.
My grandfather rode a horse into a church during services.
If he could do that, then you can raise a little Cain for the right cause.
Another reason why I finally opted to go non-denominational. Religion ties everything said to a whole mass of churches, etc. In non-denominational, instead of worrying about religiosity, sacraments, rites (we do Baptism as a open declaration and a Lord’s Supper/Communion where we follow His instructions and use it as a remembrance instead of a miracle of the transformation of food into Him - the holiness is from a sharing of the remembrance, not from some mystical event). The greatest part of the message is Jesus’ sacrifice and the Love of Him, the Father, and the Holy Spirit - it includes the Bible, cover-to-cover, and concentrates on the Word vs. religion. If a pastor goes rogue, there are plenty of other places to worship, but I’d hazard that there is a greater percentage of conservative, God-fearing, moralistic (pro-life, anti-homo “marriage”) in nondenominational churches than in any other religious sect of Christianity.
Went to my usual TLM here on Long Island, and Father said not a single word about illegal aliens.
Thought you might be interested.
Best regards,
No.
Not Word One on immigration - preached on the Gospel for the day, and King Solomon, and a couple of other interesting topics about discerning God's will and acting on it.
Good homily.
I would not go either but I would tell them why.