Evangelization topic during Mass discussion

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That’s your opinion. It costs money to keep a church open all night. There are security concerns also, both for the church property and the people who come to visit. In most places, the church will be standing empty most or all of the night because people tend to be at home asleep in bed in anticipation of work the next day. Or else they are elderly and need to go to bed relatively early and aren’t really safe driving or walking around at night.

Also, the vast, vast majority of people who want to attend adoration are able to find some time during the week when a church is open for them to go. They may come early to Mass, they may find a church that is open between Masses, they may search Masstimes to find a church that is open when they can go. People make time to go everyplace else that is not open at night, such as stores, restaurants, the movies etc and they can easily make a time to go to Adoration if they are truly motivated.
 
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Googling it brings up many sources backing up the fact that the overwhelming majority of Catholic women use non-approved Church methods of birth control. It’s not fake news at all.
 
Well I’m not the majority of people. I’m me, and I know given my work schedule I’m very limited on time I spend commuting and fighting traffic.
 
I don’t think having it perpetual is as crazy everyone else seems to believe.
 
If parishes 20 miles from my own can do it, why can’t mine?
 
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Well, you could suggest it. And volunteer for the overnight shifts. Or offer to coordinate getting volunteers to cover all shifts.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...6/gIQAkPeqIR_blog.html?utm_term=.e40da4fc1c7b

“But while the study says that 98 percent of “sexually experienced Catholic women” have “ever used a contraceptive method other than natural planning,” the data shown in the report does not actually back up that claim. In fact, a supplementary table in the report, on page 8, even appears to undermine that statistic, since it shows that 11 percent of Catholic women currently using no method at all.”

the-american-catholic.com

98% of Catholic Women Use Birth Control

– or so they say. “They” being random folks online, who seem to have picked it up from Huffington Post, or maybe Daily Kos. To be fair, the original claim was that 98% of women (f…
the-american-catholic.com the-american-catholic.com

“So I guess we could say that among women aged 15-44 who had sex in the last three months but aren’t pregnant, post-partum or trying to get pregnant, 87% of women who identify as Catholic used contraception. It’s worth pondering just who is left out of this 87%, other than, you know, everyone who doesn’t use contraception. Great stat, team journalist! I mean, the study was designed to find only women who would be most likely to use contraception. And it did.

When I googled it, in fairness, 2 of the top 5 did confirm it completely. However 3 of them didn’t. The third was a followup by Guttmacher itself, which can’t be trusted obviously. But even in that one they say 87 or 88% of Catholic women use methods other than NFP. Again though, they’re not counting women trying to get pregnant, pregnant, or post-partum. Um… that’s a lot of Catholic women. How much of the total percent of child-bearing age women? We’ll just never know. They weren’t included in the base study of 7,500 people surveyed.

Guttmacher Statistic on Catholic Women’s Contraceptive Use

In April 2011, the Guttmacher Institute published the results of an analysis finding that 99% of all women of reproductive age who have ever had sex—including 98% of such Catholic women—have used a method of contraception other than natural family planning. These data have been ubiquitous in the...
www.guttmacher.org www.guttmacher.org

Edit: As I said, FAKE NEWS. Catholic women trying to get pregnant and already pregnant were excluded from the survey. Have you heard any Catholic jokes about big families? Have you been to a Latin Mass ever? I will concede that perhaps a majority of Catholic women use birth control, but its nowhere near 98%. Especially among Hispanic women. That’s just a fact. And I encourage you to google better. Idk. Any time I tell someone to google on CAF, they mysteriously fail to find what I find. Every time I respond, I just use the first links from the first search.

The first quote is the Washington Post. Not some obscure part of the Catholic blogosphere, eh?
 
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You don’t need to wait for confirmation—this isn’t a liturgical ministry.
 
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Well I’m not the majority of people. I’m me, and I know given my work schedule I’m very limited on time I spend commuting and fighting traffic.
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I’m sorry you are having a difficult schedule, but it is not reasonable to expect a church that is already staying open very late by normal church standards to stay open even later, just to accommodate you. If you can round up 2 dozen other people who all want to come to Adoration and cannot find any time to get there other than 11 pm at night, then you could take your case to the pastor. Otherwise, you may need to see if you can visit a church during lunch, or early in the morning, or on the weekend, or if none of those alternatives work, just offer it up until such time as your schedule changes.
 
My schedule won’t be changing due to the nature of my job. And I know at such a large parish as mine there are definitely other people that are in the same boat as myself
 
Then coordinate the other volunteers. The point is that you’re requesting a large accommodation without offering to take responsibility for facilitating it.
 
Not convincing at all. I’ll continue to base my opinion on facts. The cold, hard truth is that the overwhelming majority of Catholic women use artificial contraception.
 
No, but I’d actually like to be a member of my parish. I don’t think my idea would be received with thought coming from someone who hasn’t been confirmed and actually has a stake in the parish.
 
It’s not a matter of requiring confirmation, it’s a matter of do I have a stake in this parish.
 
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I disagree. I think it should be about giving an opportunity for every parishioner to enjoy adoration regardless of their time obligations outside of Church.
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You could always offer to organize it and find enough people to cover all the hours.

We tend to be very good about saying what absolutely should be available to us, but put the responsibility on other people.

I have to tell you that in my area several parishes went in together to have adoration in the chapel of a local high school. I don’t think they ever got it beyond two days a week and it has now died out for lack of participation.
 
Back to the topic of evangelization, I have to ask how many of your neighbors or co-workers know that you’re Catholic? Would they be surprised if they heard?

I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had that started with someone saying “since you’re Catholic you’d probably know…” followed by whatever question they have. They may read something that leaves them with questions or they may not understand why the Pope is commenting on a certain issue or they want to know if Catholics really believe something or other.

Because they know I’m Catholic and open to their questions they feel free to ask.
 
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