church service

[down_under]

I went to church service for mercy sunday. it was a special service mentioned in the paper. we figured it would be a big to do. we get there and there are like 30 people there. the priest is so old he shakes. praise God he made it through the service. they had bells and smells which was nice. There was rosary and adoration. during silent adoration they did the confession. then we said the chaplet of divine mercy at 3 after which we had a simple service. which is good because the organist could not have dealt with much more. I would not have refered to her as second rate. Fourth or fifth would be more accurate. she was backed up by a single singer who saw better days. and yet it was the most glorious uplifting experience. The warm fuzzy. we left in the kind of joy where you want to go tell it on the mountain if only you could put into words what you were experienceing. We both had 40 minutes to go in oppisite directions with noone else in the car. So we even got to think about the warm fuzzy all the way home. It was a great day.

 

[bpbasilphx]

they had bells and smells which was nice.

That’s a needlessly vulgar and disrepsectful description of traditional ceremonial, don’t you think?

 

[AngelRose81]

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To the OP, glad you had a nice service.

 

[thomasf]

I don’t think it’s disrespectful at all. I’ve heard people refer to this when talking about their preference for a traditional mass.

 

[PhilotheaZ]

they had bells and smells which was nice.

That’s a needlessly vulgar and disrepsectful description of traditional ceremonial, don’t you think?

I’ve heard lots of people use this phrase without intending any disrespect.

 

[down_under]

they had bells and smells which was nice.

That’s a needlessly vulgar and disrepsectful description of traditional ceremonial, don’t you think?

in a word NO. I found it nither fulgar or disrespectful if you found it that way I apologies for the way you found it. if that was all you took away you missed the whole point.

 

[Guitar]

[Edited by Moderator]

Down Under, I took meself off to a different parish to see how the other half live, though knowing they (like my parish) have Polish priests I was pretty sure they would make an effort.

Exposition for an hour and several priests to hear confession, Mass with confessions still going and with choir and organist, then more exposition with the chaplet (sung!) and other Divine Mercy prayers, benediction, toss in a Tantum ergo and another two Latin hymns, about 300 people there by the end, two and a half hours or so, then they were all off for coffee in the hall and a DVD about Sr Faustina’s life, though I couldn’t stay for that.

Find yourself a parish with Polish priests, that’ll do it.

 

[puzzleannie]

[Edited by Moderator] promoters of the devotion took out a full page color ad in the local papers to advertise Divine Mercy observances throughout the Valley and did a lot more promotion of the novena and other publicity than in previous years. Our attendance was sparse, exactly what we would have expected, about 60 people, most over 50. We discussed the reason for poor turnout given the crying need for Divine Mercy in our age and conclude that because there is no general sense of sin and hence no general conviction of the need to ask for Mercy, no one is flocking to this devotion which is so tailor made for our times. For the same reason additional penance services and times were poorly attended during Lent.

 

[Joannm]

We had about 100 at our Divine Mercy service. We first exposed the Blessed Sacrament, had a reading, a homily, some silent time and then chanted acapella the chaplet interspersed with selections from Faustina’s Diary read by the cantor who did the first part of the chant. Then we prayed the Divine Mercy praises. After another period of silence. This was followed by Benediction.