Old Stuff

After a couple of years of subtle attempts to encourage more orthodoxy at my domicile parish ("St. Amchurch's Catholic Community"), I gave up and went back to the parish where I received the sacramental grand slam back in '94 (baptism, confirmation, Eucharist and wedding). Still a few variations from the rubrics here, but nothing like a Mass where a teenage girl reads the Gospel while her classmates gather and kneel at the altar around her, before the pastoral assistant sister delivers the homily. I'm not making that up, it really happened at the last Mass I ever attended at "Our Lady of Perpetual Dissent".

I'm fortunate enough to have a Byzantine Catholic Church near me and once you go Byzantine Catholic, you never go back. What a divine liturgy! It's as reverent as the Latin Mass while being comprehensible (I'm a Latin ignoramous).

Some weekends I try to hit my home parish for the readings and homily before leaving (since I'd already received the Eucharist at the Byzantine church).

When we moved to the sw suburbs of Chicago in 99 we had to parish shop...we attended our "home" parish once, no reverence, no crucifix, no kneelers, people talking during the entire Mass, etc. we ended up finding a parish in another suburb (Elmhurst) with a wonderful Orthodox pastor, perpetual adoration, wonderful homilies. We paid two tolls to get there. Now that we are back in the unchurched pac nw, we went back to our old parish, but our 80 yo pastor finally retired, now the church has no pastor. Most of the families that used to attend our old church now attend a wonderful little polish parish. The pastor is a young polish priest, who hears confession before every Mass, gives excellent homiles and we sing the Sanctus, Kyrie and the Agnus Dei, in Latin. We won't go back. The few times we had to attend a "life teen" mass at another parish, we were reminded of why we parish shop. At the life teen Masss there was: NO reverence, teens chewing gum, talking during the Consecration, etc., no kneeling for any part of the mass. Very upsetting. My first obligation is to pass the faith to my kids, they will only be confused/led astray by heterodox liturgies.

Dear Mr. White,

I didn't think one was supposed to. I say out of one side of my mouth. And then add, after the first mass at my local parish where I saw liturgical dancing, what looked like female coconsecration of the eucharist, etc. I found a different place.

shalom,

Steven

Though I didn't agree with her (see comment #1 above), Maureen McHugh of "A Religion of Sanity" makes a thoughtful case for staying put, archived at "Catholic Communalism"

I don't actually have a parish- I go to Mass, etc. at the campus ministry where I went to college. The fact that I became a Secular of the community that runs the ministry gives me a great excuse for sticking around even though I haven't been in college for years. (Yes, they are a Newman center with solid homilies, reverent Masses, good music, etc.- too many Newman Centers are disgraces to the Venerable's name, alas ! )

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