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StSteverino
Guest
There is a liberal Catholic Church I visit sometimes. They have a 5:30 pm mass on Sunday which is convenient.
They have ripped out the kneelers, everyone stands during the consecration, they music minister keeps singing the Sanctus well into the Eucharistic Prayer. They use clear glass plates and chalices and at communion services they store the Blessed Sacrament in a crockpot that looks like a soup container. There are no holy water fonts, but you can dip your fingers into the baptismal font, which looks like a big glass fishbowl in the back of the church.
A mother was trying to teach her children how to bless themselves but they could not reach and it was so frustrating she left, murmering what I suspect was a promise to find a real Catholic Church.
TThe priest sometimes uses special audio visual effects and skit like presentations for homilies, interacting with someone off stage. In fact the Church feels like a circle in the round auditorium. During one mass he gave out handouts and explained that the mass was foremost a communal meal, an agape feast. The mass was explained in blow by blow detail, but sacrifice was not mentioned.
Also he hides part of the Host under a cloth and retrieves it after mass, when everyone is gone, which I find weird.
All this is troubling to me as a returning Catholic. Please explain if you get whats going on.
Oh yeah, one other thing. A woman who did a Eucharistic Communion service it turns out was an Episcopal Priest and she preached a Homily. She fills in when the priest is out of town. Lay people also preach during communion services. And the Gospel is read.
Is this allowed?
They have ripped out the kneelers, everyone stands during the consecration, they music minister keeps singing the Sanctus well into the Eucharistic Prayer. They use clear glass plates and chalices and at communion services they store the Blessed Sacrament in a crockpot that looks like a soup container. There are no holy water fonts, but you can dip your fingers into the baptismal font, which looks like a big glass fishbowl in the back of the church.
A mother was trying to teach her children how to bless themselves but they could not reach and it was so frustrating she left, murmering what I suspect was a promise to find a real Catholic Church.
TThe priest sometimes uses special audio visual effects and skit like presentations for homilies, interacting with someone off stage. In fact the Church feels like a circle in the round auditorium. During one mass he gave out handouts and explained that the mass was foremost a communal meal, an agape feast. The mass was explained in blow by blow detail, but sacrifice was not mentioned.
Also he hides part of the Host under a cloth and retrieves it after mass, when everyone is gone, which I find weird.
All this is troubling to me as a returning Catholic. Please explain if you get whats going on.
Oh yeah, one other thing. A woman who did a Eucharistic Communion service it turns out was an Episcopal Priest and she preached a Homily. She fills in when the priest is out of town. Lay people also preach during communion services. And the Gospel is read.
Is this allowed?
