If the Church went underground would your priest know he could include you?

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If the Church went underground would your priest know he could include you?

The title is self explanatory, but thought provoking and I look forwards to replies.
(For the record, I would say mine would-I very much hope)
 
I would hope he would include everybody who’s at daily Mass regularly, so that would include me, yes.

I managed to find the “underground” Mass for a week during COVID shutdown. Unfortunately, somebody talked to the press and the Archbishop shut all the “underground Masses” down.
 
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As I’m quite introverted, my priest wouldn’t know me if he passed me on the street. Hopefully he would invite those who do work for St. Vincent de Paul so I’d get in that way.
 
DH and I are Eucharistic Ministers, so I think he’d recognize us.

Also I do a women’s Bible study, so those ladies could vouch for me
 
I would be. When lockdown happened this year, I was one of the 5 people selected to attend and assist at the Sunday liturgies.
 
NOT to cast aspersions here! As we see in today’s troubled Church - we might also want to reverse the question: Would you trust your pastor in the underground Church?
 
I think he would. I do several things around in the parish, while it´s a really small one. And I think it would´ve been strange if he wouldn´t include me. I know him pretty well.

@po18guy Well, my priest is pretty solid so I would´ve trusted him. He´s traditional.
 
Trust him to do what? He’s be there to say the Mass and give the sacraments like he does every day. I should hope he could handle continuing to do his job.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I would hope he would include everybody who’s at daily Mass regularly, so that would include me, yes.

I managed to find the “underground” Mass for a week during COVID shutdown. Unfortunately, somebody talked to the press and the Archbishop shut all the “underground Masses” down.
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Thank God.
 
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I managed to find the “underground” Mass for a week during COVID shutdown. Unfortunately, somebody talked to the press and the Archbishop shut all the “underground Masses” down.
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Huh, funny. We also had underground services (Vespers) on a parishioner’s back patio.
 
On the Hill asked:

“Why would it go underground?”

(Sorry, due to my age and lack of technical understanding I still can’t get these features to work for me.)

When you asked that question about the Church going underground I thought of a talk I heard about 20 years ago by a very holy retired priest of about 92 years old. The group listening was captivated by his insights as he spoke of the direction the Church was taking. I remember this one sentence he said towards the end of his talk:

“I give the Church about thirty years, and then it will go underground.”

It may, perhaps, even take less than thirty years. We all have to pray much. It is sad to see about two or three people in the church for monthly adoration of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament that is on till noon after an 8:30 weekday Mass.
 
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superhancpetram said:
Thank God that @Tis_Bearself managed to find an underground Mass or thank God that somebody blabbed to the press and the archbishop deprived his flock of the sacraments?
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No. Thank God that this archbishop recognized the inherent danger associated with the virus and that the virus doesn’t care why people are gathered.
 
Now? Yes. There’s been a lot of times he wouldn’t though simply because there’s very little opportunity for shift workers to be involved. Church tends to be built around a 9-5 M-F schedule.
 
The Church going underground? In the Pacific NW USA, Thanksgiving gatherings need to go underground! Washington and Oregon are employing snitches to report on “out of spec” gatherings.

Soviet Russia. Nazi Germany. The United States?
 
That is exactly what happened to the Byzantine rite Catholics in the Ukraine, starting in the 1940s. Byzantine rite Catholicism was illegal (the communist government ordered them to join the Orthodox Church), and its members were careful about their meetings, sometimes having mass in the forest. A traitor could turn them in. I have sometimes wondered what they did as far as it came to security and how they invited people to participate. But they managed somehow.
I presume if the Church went underground in our own country that it wouldn’t be the priest only who would invite people to participate, but the Catholics more generally would invite people they knew were safe, as would have happened in the Ukraine.
 
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