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mfj
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This has been a suggestion for many years. It is really hard to sit at the front door and recognize new faces, unless your in a very small parish.
This was a suggestion I seen for an answer to that problem.
Try making up a Tract (if you will) welcoming new folk to the parish and inviting them to coffee and donuts after mass. Or having a greet and meet when you can discuss RCIA or reconciling people back to communion with the CC. Or even some apologetics forum where yoiu might discuss issues people have. If those leaflets are in the pews at high tides like Easter and Christmas it could reach many of the folk that don’t regularly attend.
This was a suggestion I seen for an answer to that problem.
Try making up a Tract (if you will) welcoming new folk to the parish and inviting them to coffee and donuts after mass. Or having a greet and meet when you can discuss RCIA or reconciling people back to communion with the CC. Or even some apologetics forum where yoiu might discuss issues people have. If those leaflets are in the pews at high tides like Easter and Christmas it could reach many of the folk that don’t regularly attend.
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kage_ar
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GO to the RCIA classes and meet these folks! Then, say hi after Mass, invite them to lunch or over for dinner.
Come to the Vigil and volunteer to put on a reception after.
Invite these shiny new Catholics to join your group, class or orginization.
Come to the Vigil and volunteer to put on a reception after.
Invite these shiny new Catholics to join your group, class or orginization.
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crazzeto
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Being involved in your parish is a great way, and very rewarding personally. Everyone should get more involved.
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lufty
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Sure would be nice to be introduced to regular members! I for one would be all for it!
Perhaps a new members mingler or coffee thing would work for some parishes. I sure know that mine needs it.
Perhaps a new members mingler or coffee thing would work for some parishes. I sure know that mine needs it.
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crazzeto
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You should keep an eye on your church bulletin, look for bible studies, oppertunities to volenteer for CCD (don’t worry about “knowing enough”, you’ll learn), prayer groups and the like
My main advices is, watch how involved you get at first. You don’t want to burn out all at once!
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Jerry_Parker
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Hi, Fora critters!
At last I am Catholic! I went to Mass this afternoon at the cathedral church here in Rouyn-Noranda (QC.) and coralled a priest who is less infirm and aged, hence more available, than most of this diocese’s ageing clergy (tending to be pushing 80 or very past that point), to make my confession to be Catholic. This diocese is about as tired-blood re. evangelism as one could find, just paddling water in an holding position as the priests die off. It has been about a year that I have been going to Mass and trying to find a priest to do what was done today. At 61 years old, he is one of the youngest priests in this diocese and a few years younger than I myself am at 66. He’s young enough, at least, to have been able, willing, and of hearing intact enough to take care of my lingering case. He is more “liberal” than a priest really should be, so perhaps not all that a confessor ought to be, but, hey! he still is a priest and he was able to carry out the sacramental function to make me a Catholic.
So I changed my Forum profile to “Catholic (convert)” at long last. I wanted to post something about this today, such an important date in my life. Many of the fora to which I have contributed are inactive or verging on it, so I am doing it on this “string”. Rejoice with me, brothers and sisters in Christ. The C.A. Fora have been important in all of this for me!
Pax, Jerry Parker
At last I am Catholic! I went to Mass this afternoon at the cathedral church here in Rouyn-Noranda (QC.) and coralled a priest who is less infirm and aged, hence more available, than most of this diocese’s ageing clergy (tending to be pushing 80 or very past that point), to make my confession to be Catholic. This diocese is about as tired-blood re. evangelism as one could find, just paddling water in an holding position as the priests die off. It has been about a year that I have been going to Mass and trying to find a priest to do what was done today. At 61 years old, he is one of the youngest priests in this diocese and a few years younger than I myself am at 66. He’s young enough, at least, to have been able, willing, and of hearing intact enough to take care of my lingering case. He is more “liberal” than a priest really should be, so perhaps not all that a confessor ought to be, but, hey! he still is a priest and he was able to carry out the sacramental function to make me a Catholic.
So I changed my Forum profile to “Catholic (convert)” at long last. I wanted to post something about this today, such an important date in my life. Many of the fora to which I have contributed are inactive or verging on it, so I am doing it on this “string”. Rejoice with me, brothers and sisters in Christ. The C.A. Fora have been important in all of this for me!
Pax, Jerry Parker
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crazzeto
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Welcome home Jerry 
The dishes need to be done, get to work
j/k!
Glad to hear you were finally able to finish off your conversion process! Sorry to hear you’re not a fan of the parish where you converted, perhaps look around some, you might find a parish you feel more comfortable in. But I like your attitude, indeed any validly ordained preist can serve our needs in providing the sacraments, and at the end of the day the most important part of our weekly obligation is reception of the Eucharist. As long as you have that, worst case stick it out and you might see a transformation you’re hoping for in your local parish.
The parish I “grew up in” in Grosse Pointe MI (beautiful church, google/wikki St. Paul on the Lake) went through a similar transformation. When I was a child it was as you describe, full of old priests basically waiting to die, and very “spirit of vatican II”. It’s gone through a radical transformation, the pastor is in his 50’s (maybe 60’s), he’s very Orthodox, very energized, they’re running apologetics classes, a Catholics come Home program and I wouldn’t be supprised if they had a bible study going (or if they might soon).
The dishes need to be done, get to work
j/k!Glad to hear you were finally able to finish off your conversion process! Sorry to hear you’re not a fan of the parish where you converted, perhaps look around some, you might find a parish you feel more comfortable in. But I like your attitude, indeed any validly ordained preist can serve our needs in providing the sacraments, and at the end of the day the most important part of our weekly obligation is reception of the Eucharist. As long as you have that, worst case stick it out and you might see a transformation you’re hoping for in your local parish.
The parish I “grew up in” in Grosse Pointe MI (beautiful church, google/wikki St. Paul on the Lake) went through a similar transformation. When I was a child it was as you describe, full of old priests basically waiting to die, and very “spirit of vatican II”. It’s gone through a radical transformation, the pastor is in his 50’s (maybe 60’s), he’s very Orthodox, very energized, they’re running apologetics classes, a Catholics come Home program and I wouldn’t be supprised if they had a bible study going (or if they might soon).
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Jerry_Parker
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Crazzeto,
**You wrote: ** *Welcome home Jerry. Glad to hear you were finally able to finish off your conversion process! Sorry to hear you’re not a fan of the parish where you converted, perhaps look around some, you might find a parish you feel more comfortable in. But I like your attitude, indeed any validly ordained preist can serve our needs in providing the sacraments, and at the end of the day the most important part of our weekly obligation is reception of the Eucharist. As long as you have that, worst case stick it out and you might see a transformation you’re hoping for in your local parish.
It is the diocese itself that is sick, here, not the cathedral church parish, which is surprisingly alive with even midweek Masses well attended. The other parishes are more or less moribund for lack of energy with such aged clergy. The bishop is a liberal but not so bad as some are.
Pax, Jerry Parker
**You wrote: ** *Welcome home Jerry. Glad to hear you were finally able to finish off your conversion process! Sorry to hear you’re not a fan of the parish where you converted, perhaps look around some, you might find a parish you feel more comfortable in. But I like your attitude, indeed any validly ordained preist can serve our needs in providing the sacraments, and at the end of the day the most important part of our weekly obligation is reception of the Eucharist. As long as you have that, worst case stick it out and you might see a transformation you’re hoping for in your local parish.
The parish I “grew up in” in Grosse Pointe MI (beautiful church, google/wikki St. Paul on the Lake) went through a similar transformation. When I was a child it was as you describe, full of old priests basically waiting to die, and very “spirit of vatican II”. It’s gone through a radical transformation, the pastor is in his 50’s (maybe 60’s), he’s very Orthodox, very energized, they’re running apologetics classes, a Catholics come Home program and I wouldn’t be supprised if they had a bible study going (or if they might soon). *
Thanks for your words, Crazzeto. It is nice to have one notice this important change in my life so soon after it happened. The Roman Catholic Church is a wreck compared to how it was in my youth, teens, and beginning of my 20s, under Pius XII and John XXIII, and has been since Paul VI’s disastrous papacy, but it still is the Church, for better or worse. The Protestant way is a dead end and invalid.It is the diocese itself that is sick, here, not the cathedral church parish, which is surprisingly alive with even midweek Masses well attended. The other parishes are more or less moribund for lack of energy with such aged clergy. The bishop is a liberal but not so bad as some are.
Pax, Jerry Parker
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crazzeto
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Take heart then, that the current pontiff is pushing reform, at a more prudent pace than in the 60’s.
Over all I’m happy with the church structure to be perfectly frank, with the out side case of the occational bad (or heretical) preist/bishop. It’s mainly the task of recatechising the lay that needs to happen. But hey, that’s our job right?
Over all I’m happy with the church structure to be perfectly frank, with the out side case of the occational bad (or heretical) preist/bishop. It’s mainly the task of recatechising the lay that needs to happen. But hey, that’s our job right?
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lufty
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So far my experience with the CC, the only time anyone is acknowledged is during the “peace be with you” prayer before the sacrament. Otherwise, there is no public, or friendship in this church. It is ones own experience with Christ, and not a community.
I wouldn’t expect to meet, or be greeted by a single Catholic in this religion. It is one’s own experience with God and Christ, and not designed for any public or communal human experience.
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I wouldn’t expect to meet, or be greeted by a single Catholic in this religion. It is one’s own experience with God and Christ, and not designed for any public or communal human experience.
My $0.02
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