Anyone else's parish not give a flaming hoot whether they live or die?

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Jesus always wants to spend time with you. Take advantage of the time you want to spend with a ministry or church group - spend that time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament (since you cannot join a group right now). Jesus always wants to spend time with you.
 
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The other difference I sometimes see with non-Catholic friends is that attending a church is optional, if their experience of attending church was like either mine or Bretbatts they may stop attending and worship and pray alone.
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A lot of Catholics only attend mass because they feel they must.

Only about 1 in 3 adult Catholics (31.4 percent), chiefly older women, attend Mass in any given week, according to a survey of 1,007 self-identified Catholics by the Catholic research agency, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

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How Catholic are US Catholics? It's all in how you measure

(RNS) Being Catholic is more about beliefs and values than about attending Mass, experts find.
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I feel a lot more fellowship in Protestant churches, but I feel God’s presence more in Catholic churches. I feel both with the Messianic Jews, but stick with the Catholics. So far. I value the reception on the Real Presence too highly to leave.
 
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Looks like a LOT of Catholics are not having their spiritual needs met. To some extent, I believe fulfilling one’s spiritual needs is up to the individual (meditate, pray, get in touch with nature and solitude), but I still feel the Church is negligent in this area, and they are paying for it in lost members.

Among former Catholics who are now Protestant, 71% say they left Catholicism because their spiritual needs were not being met, making this the most commonly cited reason for leaving the Catholic Church among this group. A similar number (70%) say they left the Catholic Church because they found another religion they liked more. Having found a religion they liked more than Catholicism is cited by almost equal numbers of formerly Catholic evangelical and mainline Protestants (70% and 69%, respectively). By contrast, lack of spiritual fulfillment is a particularly common impetus for leaving Catholicism among those who are now members of evangelical Protestant churches (78%) but is cited less often by former Catholics who have become members of mainline Protestant churches (57%).

 
The other problem with only going to mass for the Eucharist I feel is that it can make us lousy evangelists. People see the lack of connection between us and other Catholics and it’s very off putting.
 
I can see that, where I am there’s no adoration, the other parish we share the priest with, only has it on Holy Thursday. There’s no real bible study group, occasionally he will do a study group on a Thursday lunchtime, but that’s not regular. Confession is regularly cancelled, I don’t think we’ve had it since before Easter. It is pretty much just the Mass.
 
The church I go to for confession does have Adoration, not sure if it’s always at that time, as it was my first time going there, but hopefully I can spend time there when I go. It was my first confession last time (Baptised at Easter) so was a bit too worried about getting that right to be able to sit and enjoy the Adoration time. Sadly it is over an hour away though, so not my local church
 
Why no? Nothing wrong with the Orthodox Church. We need to get educated on the “2 lungs in the same body “. Pope Francis
 
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The logistics of that commute on a weekly basis from where he is boggles the mind. How people do it daily I have yet to figure out.
 
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“2 lungs in the same body" refers to the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches & Latin Rite Catholic Churches, both of which are in union with Rome and equally valid choices.

I do think that a lot of people who think they are unhappy with the Catholic Church would have a renewed attraction to Catholicism if they visited a Byzantine Catholic Church.
 
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