Mass of The Lord's Supper

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I absolutely love The Mass of the Lord’s Supper.It brings me to tears every year.
Last night,while gazing up at the life sized crucifix ,I was overwhelmed with immense gratitude for all the love Our Lord has for us.Our faith is so rich in sacred tradition.
So very grateful for all of our priests and deacons who have answered God’s call .May God bless them abundantly always and everywhere.🙏🙏🙏🙏
 
Jeanne_S said:
I absolutely love The Mass of the Lord’s Supper.It brings me to tears every year.
Last night,while gazing up at the life sized crucifix ,I was overwhelmed with immense gratitude for all the love Our Lord has for us.Our faith is so rich in sacred tradition.
So very grateful for all of our priests and deacons who have answered God’s call .May God bless them abundantly always and everywhere.🙏🙏🙏🙏
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I found it quite beautiful.

Amen.
 
Jeanne_S said:
I absolutely love The Mass of the Lord’s Supper.It brings me to tears every year.
Last night,while gazing up at the life sized crucifix ,I was overwhelmed with immense gratitude for all the love Our Lord has for us.Our faith is so rich in sacred tradition.
So very grateful for all of our priests and deacons who have answered God’s call .May God bless them abundantly always and everywhere.🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Yes, was very moving. I just wish more people would come.
Our crowd was very small. Made for a nice evening in the Altar of Repose though. :gopray:
 
I attended at the abbey. It was a beautiful sunny day; the abbey church faces east so light flooded in from the west. At the moment of the elevation of the Host at the consecration, light flooded the altar and made the host shine with a surreal glow.

The abbey church is fairly recent (1994) and was built to emphasize light and darkness appropriate to the time of day. The evening sunlight yesterday was simply stunning!

I wish I had a picture but I left my phone in the car…
 
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Yes, was very moving. I just wish more people would come.
Our crowd was very small. Made for a nice evening in the Altar of Repose though. :gopray:
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Same case at my parish We are a community of 7,000plus.Our church accommodates 1200 per Mass.Last night it was maybe 90 percent full. However,if everyone did decide to participate,we would be overflowing into every nook and cranny available!:eek:
 
Jeanne_S said:
Same case at my parish We are a community of 7,000plus.Our church accommodates 1200 per Mass.Last night it was maybe 90 percent full. However,if everyone did decide to participate,we would be overflowing into every nook and cranny available!:eek:
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WOW! That’s a huge parish!
I made 200 programs and we had PLENTY leftover. 🤷
Seems we get a very very small crowd for the Triduum each year.
 
Jeanne_S said:
Same case at my parish We are a community of 7,000plus.Our church accommodates 1200 per Mass.Last night it was maybe 90 percent full. However,if everyone did decide to participate,we would be overflowing into every nook and cranny available!:eek:
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I always wonder about these extremely high numbers you see reported in some parishes. Take 7000… that’s significantly higher than the entire population of the small town I lived in as a child. Does that mean 7000 people attend Mass at that parish church each Sunday? Or does it mean 7000 Catholics happen to live within the parish boundaries? We know only a minority of Catholics regularly attend Mass. Just curious.
 
twf said:
I always wonder about these extremely high numbers you see reported in some parishes. Take 7000… that’s significantly higher than the entire population of the small town I lived in as a child. Does that mean 7000 people attend Mass at that parish church each Sunday? Or does it mean 7000 Catholics happen to live within the parish boundaries? We know only a minority of Catholics regularly attend Mass. Just curious.
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Well,no,there are that many registered,however,while most masses ,at least as assume,(I attend the same mass every week)are full,I doubt everyone attends tegularily.However,I am going to find out exactly how many are in the parish.I could be way off,I have been a registered member for eleven years and. My envelope number is in the 4,000’s.🤷
 
Right. The parish down the road has 6000 families. They take in $75 grand a weekend.
Compare that to our parish, which is 10 miles away, and we have 600 registered families and 200 immigrant families. (non-registered) We get around 10 grand a weekend in the offertory.
Our envelope numbers means nothing in terms of membership. The ParishSoft software just assigns a new family the next available number. Meaning, if someone with a number of 105 (5th member ever…) moves away, a new family might get assigned 105.
We also use numbers in the 4000’s to indicate Hispanic families.

It helps when filing and categorizing the children in formation as t whether they attend classes in English or Spanish.

I wish our parish was bigger. :o
 
pianistclare said:
Right. The parish down the road has 6000 families. They take in $75 grand a weekend.
Compare that to our parish, which is 10 miles away, and we have 600 registered families and 200 immigrant families. (non-registered) We get around 10 grand a weekend in the offertory.
Our envelope numbers means nothing in terms of membership. The ParishSoft software just assigns a new family the next available number. Meaning, if someone with a number of 105 (5th member ever…) moves away, a new family might get assigned 105.
We also use numbers in the 4000’s to indicate Hispanic families.

It helps when filing and categorizing the children in formation as t whether they attend classes in English or Spanish.

I wish our parish was bigger. :o
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I am going to find out for sure.Our weekly offering average $60,000 per week. Holiday’s as high as 150K .That is with 800 identifiable contributors.So I am thinking we have the typical 20/80 rule going on. We have 123 different ministries,three priest and two permanent deacons ,so that should give you a better idea of the size.
Having said that,our current pastor’s twelve year tenure is up in June and he specifically asked to me moved to a smaller parish!:eek:
We are a tithing parish donTing ten percent of our weekly offerings to various charities and struggling Catholic schools in the archdiocese.
At any rate ,it can be a real circus at times.
On a side note,my husband and I attended a parish in Sam Antiono several years ago,while visiting the areaThey actually had traffic controllers in orange vests,much like you see at large events.,directing traffic coming into the church parking lot.This was a regular Sunday Mass!:eek:
 
Jeanne_S said:
I am going to find out for sure.Our weekly offering average $60,000 per week. Holiday’s as high as 150K .That is with 800 identifiable contributors.So I am thinking we have the typical 20/80 rule going on. We have 123 different ministries,three priest and two permanent deacons ,so that should give you a better idea of the size.
Having said that,our current pastor’s twelve year tenure is up in June and he specifically asked to me moved to a smaller parish!:eek:
We are a tithing parish donTing ten percent of our weekly offerings to various charities and struggling Catholic schools in the archdiocese.
At any rate ,it can be a real circus at times.
On a side note,my husband and I attended a parish in Sam Antiono several years ago,while visiting the areaThey actually had traffic controllers in orange vests,much like you see at large events.,directing traffic coming into the church parking lot.This was a regular Sunday Mass!:eek:
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Yeah, they have that at the parishes on the northside of the city.
We have one priest and FIVE Deacons.
It’s crowded on the altar. Three young altar servers and two adult acolytes.
Our Archdiocese only keeps the priest in any given parish for 6-7 years.
We are a tithing parish too. 10% off the top goes to a different charity weekly, that we vote upon quarterly
We don’t’ have that many ministries as the same people are involved in nearly each one. Our parish is not growing. The huge parish down the road? Getting bigger all the time. We have no meeting space per se, and no classrooms. We just are not able to offer what they can. They have many huge buildings wit lots of space for groups to meet.
We have to rent the Catholic school on the property (it’s a private school) for Sunday school and events. 😦
 
pianistclare said:
Right. The parish down the road has 6000 families. They take in $75 grand a weekend.
Compare that to our parish, which is 10 miles away, and we have 600 registered families and 200 immigrant families. (non-registered) We get around 10 grand a weekend in the offertory.
Our envelope numbers means nothing in terms of membership. The ParishSoft software just assigns a new family the next available number. Meaning, if someone with a number of 105 (5th member ever…) moves away, a new family might get assigned 105.
We also use numbers in the 4000’s to indicate Hispanic families.

It helps when filing and categorizing the children in formation as t whether they attend classes in English or Spanish.

I wish our parish was bigger. :o
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Wow! We have just around 400 families and take in about 1200/week. Rarely more than 40 envelopes. I’d say about 10% of parishioners attend Mass, although that number is creeping up as more and more Filipinos move to the area.

And you’re correct about the numbers. I’d usually let a number rest for a full year before I assigned it to someone else.
 
pianistclare said:
Yeah, they have that at the parishes on the northside of the city.
We have one priest and FIVE Deacons.
It’s crowded on the altar. Three young altar servers and two adult acolytes.
Our Archdiocese only keeps the priest in any given parish for 6-7 years.
We are a tithing parish too. 10% off the top goes to a different charity weekly, that we vote upon quarterly
We don’t’ have that many ministries as the same people are involved in nearly each one. Our parish is not growing. The huge parish down the road? Getting bigger all the time. We have no meeting space per se, and no classrooms. We just are not able to offer what they can. They have many huge buildings wit lots of space for groups to meet.
We have to rent the Catholic school on the property (it’s a private school) for Sunday school and events. 😦
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There is no enforcement of diocesan boundries,so we actually haves lot of parishioners from a different diocese attending our parish.I have read that is going to change in the next couple of years.The expectation will be that laity attend within their own neighborhood.That will have a huge impact on the numbers.
 
Jeanne_S said:
There is no enforcement of diocesan boundries,so we actually haves lot of parishioners from a different diocese attending our parish.I have read that is going to change in the next couple of years.The expectation will be that laity attend within their own neighborhood.That will have a huge impact on the numbers.
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Wow. That will not make people happy.
People here go WHEREVER they want.
They register in 2 or 3 parishes, which is bad because the parishes get taxed on their numbers. There are people who I have begged to register…but they don’t want to because they don’t want envelopes. The system is really easy to ignore. Lots of people do. We have parishioners from 4 counties over and some that live in the same little township and they go over 20 miles to a different, more "traditional " parish. Crazy stuff.
 
I find these huge numbers hard to comprehend. I go to a parish that might see 120 people on the average weekend and might take £400 in offertory income.

At any rate, I went to the cathedral for the Mass of The Lord’s Supper this year and there was adoration at the Altar of Repose by candlelight afterwards until Midnight. It was absolutely silent and very peaceful.
 
pianistclare said:
Big fire…2015
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Update re the actual numbers on the Parish roll.Saw my pastor today and happened to ask him…12,000 is the number he gave me!:eek:
This year for the first time we too has police on motorcycles directing traffic in and out of the church parking lot.:eek:
 
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