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I live a quarter mile from the county line, which is also the dividing line between my diocese and a neighboring one.
My geographic parish (in the diocese which covers the country in which I reside) does not make me feel comfortable or welcome. I emphasize this has nothing to do with the priests. I just feel like a leper walking into that church on Sundays (my social status is not in line with the majority of the parishioners; I’m single and everybody else is in families, I’m the only one in the parish who doesn’t earn six or seven figure salary, and the only one who doesn’t drive an expensive luxury vehicle), and it distracts me from being able to spend time with God.
I found a church in the other diocese; my first attraction to it was that they have a 7PM daily Mass, and I started attending that a couple times a week after getting home from work. As it turns out, I feel more comfortable among the people who attend that church. I’ve taken liberties and attended a Sunday Mass there, as well as the Assumption Vigil Mass.
I know that, technically, as long as we attend a bona fide Roman Catholic Mass, we are fulfilling our obligations for Sunday and holy days, and daily mass anywhere is better than no daily mass at all. But as much as I love the church across the diocesan line, I’m nervous as to whether I would be doing something wrong if I were to make that church my primary place of worship, especially since it is under another Bishop.
My geographic parish (in the diocese which covers the country in which I reside) does not make me feel comfortable or welcome. I emphasize this has nothing to do with the priests. I just feel like a leper walking into that church on Sundays (my social status is not in line with the majority of the parishioners; I’m single and everybody else is in families, I’m the only one in the parish who doesn’t earn six or seven figure salary, and the only one who doesn’t drive an expensive luxury vehicle), and it distracts me from being able to spend time with God.
I found a church in the other diocese; my first attraction to it was that they have a 7PM daily Mass, and I started attending that a couple times a week after getting home from work. As it turns out, I feel more comfortable among the people who attend that church. I’ve taken liberties and attended a Sunday Mass there, as well as the Assumption Vigil Mass.
I know that, technically, as long as we attend a bona fide Roman Catholic Mass, we are fulfilling our obligations for Sunday and holy days, and daily mass anywhere is better than no daily mass at all. But as much as I love the church across the diocesan line, I’m nervous as to whether I would be doing something wrong if I were to make that church my primary place of worship, especially since it is under another Bishop.