Is he a gold miner? I guess the “sport coat” and purple shirt offsets his lack of fashion sense by wearing jeans to Mass. Was he up on the alter trying to pass himself off as a “Eucharistic Minister”?Speaking of denim…my husband wore Sat night dark jeans, dress shoes, a purple shirt, and a sport coat. Was he in the wrong…
Your congregation burst into applause…?Father Patrick started his homily this morning by saying he was going to talk about stewardship, specifically, the stewardship of ministry. Then he started talking about out ministry at Mass, how it begins with what we wear (no ripped jeans), how we respond (no checking our cellphone when we’re supposed to be singing the “Gloria”), etc. He let us have it for fully 20 minutes, ending by telling us how Catholicism isn’t a cafeteria, where we get to pick and choose (where have we heard that before?). We have to take it all, or we aren’t taking anything.
When he stepped down from the ambo, the congregation broke into spontaneous applause. :extrahappy: :extrahappy:
I’ve never seen that happen before
Mine too, actually.
Depends on the Protestant denomination, because they sure do run the gamut, from United Pentecostal to laid back, megachurch loosely Southern Baptist affiliated.That sounds like a Protestant and not a Catholic. It’s interesting when we getting into the “dress” topic people will say the Protestants dress so nice that they put us to shame…not from the protestants churches I’ve been to. Speaking of denim…my husband wore Sat night dark jeans, dress shoes, a purple shirt, and a sport coat. Was he in the wrong…
I thought that too. It’s the people who think “he’s not talking about me, I don’t do any of that,” that were probably applauding. The others probably didn’t pay attention or would get angry and not come back.
I’ll grant you a lack of ire and a love of the denim fabric. However, on the subject of reading posts, if you’ll look at my OP, you’ll see that the reference was to ripped jeans. Father P said nothing good, bad, or indifferent about denim in general, just that respect for God should motivate people to wear something nicer than ripped clothing. I don’t know how things are in your parish, but the people in my parish who wear torn jeans do have better clothing in their closets.
Oh my!
Not quite.
I used to get grief from some other folks from my boots in the courtroom (for crying out loud, this is Nevada! what are they doing in Eastern shoes?)
:clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping:
Jesus threw over the tables in the Synagogue. We are withing our rights to speak up and say, cease, or go outside now! True?
I don’t know that we, individually, are within our rights to do that, but I would think that we are certainly within our rights to ask our priests and bishops to do it.
At one parish, a woman came to Communion wearing a sweater that said “World’s Sexiest Grandmother.”
I can believe it. One Sunday morning in our parish a man came in and sat on the front row. He was wearing a t-shirt advertising the Salty Dog Cafe. All during Mass (unless I closed my eyes) I was looking at a blatant sexual reference from the early 20th-century blues culture.At one parish, a woman came to Communion wearing a sweater that said “World’s Sexiest Grandmother.”
For real???