Imagine that you are now pastor of your parish. What are the top three things that you would change about it?

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Cindy_Oliver said:
I think it’s important to continue to instruct your congregation. Remember the fallout Christ experienced when He said
“Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.”

The path of being a Catholic Christian is not easy. The thing is, we have only one chance of getting things right. I’d much rather get things right here, instead of not. Please keep up your instruction, people’s eternal lives depend on it.
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Huh??? I meant that I thought assigning certain pews for people who couldn’t kneel or completely kneel was not the right way to go. As in “you can’t sit with us because you can’t kneel!” Sure, some people are lazy but some people are infirm or injured and you can’t really tell. Why possibly hurt the feelings of the latter because of the former?

Not only that but then the lazy ones might just go sit in the infirm pews thinking it’s perfectly acceptable since they are pews for it!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
ethelzguy said:
Well, sometimes when I have my head bowed in prayer, all I see is some big keester flopped back in front of me.

Whatever. Some of you just don’t know how to have a little fun. :rolleyes:
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Sorry ethelzguy, I for one, didn’t mean to be too hard on you. 😉
 
BSHoop96 said:
Not only that but then the lazy ones might just go sit in the infirm pews thinking it’s perfectly acceptable since they are pews for it!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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LOL! Oh, man, this is how things seem to work sometimes. But there is a check, there is a check. Put up a blue and white sign with a wheelchair and a $200 fine next to the pews and some members of the congregation will police the section for you, driving out anyone who appears too healthy.
 
Pug said:
LOL! Oh, man, this is how things seem to work sometimes. But there is a check, there is a check. Put up a blue and white sign with a wheelchair and a $200 fine next to the pews and some members of the congregation will police the section for you, driving out anyone who appears too healthy.
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:rolleyes:

We already have wheelchair spaces, and I don’t think anyone expects the wheelchair people to kneel - or stand, or walk, or anything else like that. 🤷
 
Pug said:
LOL! Oh, man, this is how things seem to work sometimes. But there is a check, there is a check. Put up a blue and white sign with a wheelchair and a $200 fine next to the pews and some members of the congregation will police the section for you, driving out anyone who appears too healthy.
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aaahhhh, but how will you tell if its just me and my knee is acting up again?? I look pretty healthy otherwise. 😉 😉 😉 Temporary sticker perhaps?
 
  1. Put the Tabernacle behind the altar and above it, in the center.
  2. Offer the Holy Sacrifice ad orientum at all Masses.
  3. Schedule confession daily and preach about the necessity for it.
  4. Use incense at all, but one, of the Masses, leaving one without it for those who have allergies.
  5. Pitch most of the vestments and lay out the cash to buy from the same guys who’ve been making the Holy Father’s vestments.
  6. Diligently plan and work on homilies that addressed the Gospel and readings AND PRACTICE MY DELIVERY OF THEM.
  7. Establish Prepetual Adoration.
  8. Promote devotion to the Divine Mercy.
  9. Schedule a weekly meeting with my music director and go over the music for the Sunday liturgies CAREFULLY. I would ban a great deal of OCP’s stuff, but not all.
  10. Have announcements read five minutes before Mass begins.
  11. Have a space of slience before the Gospel, after the homily, and after the end of Holy Communion.
Sorry, couldn’t think of just three!
 
jmcrae said:
Why bother with announcements at all, in this case? Nobody will ever hear them. :confused:
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This is how it is done at a hermitage with which I am associated. It is the least disruptive way of doing it that I’ve ever seen. Every other way disrupts the seamless flow of the Mass. Naturally, I wish that it was a given that everyone took and read bulletins, but that does not seem to be human nature.
 
BSHoop96 said:
aaahhhh, but how will you tell if its just me and my knee is acting up again?? I look pretty healthy otherwise. 😉 😉 😉 Temporary sticker perhaps?
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Hmmm. I look healthy, too. Perhaps instead of a temporary sticker, you could carry a temporary cane? 😃 That’s just what is needed, I think.
 
BSHoop96 said:
aaahhhh, but how will you tell if its just me and my knee is acting up again?? I look pretty healthy otherwise. 😉 😉 😉 Temporary sticker perhaps?
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when you’re feeling poorly, you could string a placard around your neck. 😛
 
JKirkLVNV said:
  1. Have a space of slience before the Gospel, after the homily, and after the end of Holy Communion.
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Oh, good one! Our parish gave careful instruction several years ago about silence (a silent pause) at certain parts of the mass, but then it fell into disuse fairly quickly. I really liked the times of silence.
 
Pug said:
Hmmm. I look healthy, too. Perhaps instead of a temporary sticker, you could carry a temporary cane? 😃 That’s just what is needed, I think.
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Hmmmm…that’s a thought but I would feel like I was faking with the cane…when it happens…walking is not a problem…just kneeling when it pinches the nerve. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I thnk we might be hijacking the thread. Back to the subject.

(1) I would PLEASE ASK EVERYONE TO QUIT VISITING/SOCIALIZING IN THE PEWS BEFORE MASS AND PLEASE be quiet.

(2) This is extreme and I don’t mean to set anyone off but I would move the exchange of peace to right after the priest begins the mass. I find it disrupting where it’s at. Just my opinion but I’m the priest and of course that change would have to come from WAAAAAYYYYY farther up the chain.

(3) Since #2 was a biggie I’ll forego #3.
 
BSHoop96 said:
(2) This is extreme and I don’t mean to set anyone off but I would move the exchange of peace to right after the priest begins the mass. I find it disrupting where it’s at. Just my opinion but I’m the priest and of course that change would have to come from WAAAAAYYYYY farther up the chain.
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Unfortunately for you, Redemptionis Sacramentum already ruled against you on that one.
[71.] The practice of the Roman Rite is to be maintained according to which the peace is extended shortly before Holy Communion. For according to the tradition of the Roman Rite, this practice does not have the connotation either of reconciliation or of a remission of sins, but instead signifies peace, communion and charity before the reception of the Most Holy Eucharist.[151] It is rather the Penitential Act to be carried out at the beginning of Mass (especially in its first form) which has the character of reconciliation among brothers and sisters.
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Spiller said:
Why?
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Because Cat is a Very very good Catholic who has given some GREAT advice on this board…

BUT has an immature view on recognising a gift from God.

Alcohol is a GIFT of God that is OFTEN and I MEAN OFTEN abused.

However More Catholics abuse the concept of Marriage (ie contraception) than Alcohol.
 
Phemie said:
Unfortunately for you, Redemptionis Sacramentum already ruled against you on that one.
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Really??? I thought I saw something on that the other day that said some change was being considered on that.

Doesn’t really matter as I will go with what the Church says is correct, regardless of my personal preference.
 
  1. Fix the youth ministry (because it is really awful)
  2. Buy little placards to post to every door for people to silence phones
  3. Invite all adult parish members to attend RCIA classes, and note what the topics of upcoming classes are in the bulletin. I would make it mandatory that parents of children in Sacramental grades must attend at least one RCIA class that year.
 
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