Inter-Faith Service?

[Sanctus]

My parish is planning on having an interfaith service with one of the local baptist churches to commerate MLK jr. day. I’m all for MLK, and I’m all for reaching out to Protestants; however, the baptist preacher will be delivering the sermon…is it ever appropriate for anyone but a Deacon/Priest/Bishop to deliver a sermon in the Catholic church?

          I realize it will not be a Mass and I know what I referred to is the restriction on who can give a homily, but this just sounds like a bad idea to me.  I'm mainly concerned about disrespect to the Blessed Sacrament and the Alter.  Also it just seems odd to ever have a non-Catholic "preaching" inside a Catholic church regardless of the intention.

         I suppose if this was held in the parish hall it wouldn't be such a big deal...In my eyes holding the service in the Church and infront of the Blessed Sacrament with our Priest present would appear to the innocent bystander that the Church is lending some creedence in what might be espoused from the Pulpit...should this concern me?  Is this in itself an abuse?  What would you reccomend?

 

[Darrel]

Hmmmm,

Maybe it’s a good thing to get all those Protestants inside the Catholic Church in the presence of Christ. I’m sure the Lord won’t be offended by people who believe in him.

I doubt the pastor will desecrate the Eucharist or some craziness. I think it’s a sign of unity in a divided Christian world. I wonder if the Priest will hold a Catholic mass in the protestant church. Would that be permissible?

-D

 

[katherine2]

check with the Pope. he’s had such addresses in St. Peter’s.

 

[EddieArent]

Lutherans held an invalid consecration of a bishop in one of our shrines in Orlando. This diocese is a mess. It’s no wonder why yet another lawsuit allegeding of child molestation in the diocese was filed yesterday. The parish where the alleged incident happened to be, is my local parish where in my 19 years on the face of this earth I have attended Mass there just one time and it was one time too many. Please pray for the Orlando diocese to become Catholic as we are being invalided by groups like Call To Action, etc.

 

[lonnienord]

May GOD bless the Diocese of Orlando!! GOD guide and protect your Church!!

all for JESUS!!
lonnie

 

[dhgray]

Sanctus:

I suppose if this was held in the parish hall it wouldn’t be such a big deal…In my eyes holding the service in the Church and infront of the Blessed Sacrament with our Priest present would appear to the innocent bystander that the Church is lending some creedence in what might be espoused from the Pulpit…should this concern me? Is this in itself an abuse? What would you reccomend?

We have on in our parish every year. It helps build unity in the community. All 3 Catholic church came together, the Methodists, Lutherans, Episicopalians, and 3 Jewish Synagogs worish under one roof. We parish is the only one big enough to support such a prayer service. I would recommend that you go and learn to be more tollarent towards other faiths. Plus it will be a good change for you to be a witness to the Catholic faith.

God Bless,
DHGray

 

[Sanctus]

dhgray:

I would recommend that you go and learn to be more tollarent towards other faiths. Plus it will be a good change for you to be a witness to the Catholic faith.

God Bless,
DHGray

I am tolerant of other faiths…I thought I went out of my way to make that clear. By the nature of where I live (Catholics make up just under 3% of the populations) a Catholic MUST be tolerant and knowledgable about both his and other faiths. Also, it’s not like there would be any change in me being a witness to my faith…I was one, am now, and plan on continuing that.

 

[Meggie]

At my parents parish they have the citywide thanksgiving thing…its like a Mass that starts but ends after the gospel and then everyone goes to the parish center for desserts…