Parish life during the week

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Hello everyone. I go to a parish that has 2 communites-the anglo/whie and Latino/Mexican. But it seems like the Latino/Mexican parish community only goes to Mass on Sundays and that’s it. I mean hardly any of them go to Mass during the week.

And the only other thing that they have is a Spanish prayer group on Thursday mornings. And they have a Eucharistic Holy Hour once a month-1st Fridays.

So I’m thinking, are they just cultural catholics or what? I mean, I try to take my faith and my relationship with God very seriously, you know what I mean???

Any thoughts or ideas on this?

Thanks…
 
jason3477 said:
So I’m thinking, are they just cultural catholics or what? I mean, I try to take my faith and my relationship with God very seriously, you know what I mean???

Any thoughts or ideas on this?

Thanks…
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Are you aware what the term “cultural catholic” actually means?

P.S. It’s just a more modern term of “cafeteria catholic” .
 
Barbkw said:
Are you aware what the term “cultural catholic” actually means?

P.S. It’s just a more modern term of “cafeteria catholic” .
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Am I hearing well? Maybe my english is faltering…Thus this mean the Mexican Catholics are “cafeteria catholic”? Or was my poor english that betrayed me?
 
jason3477 said:
Hello everyone. I go to a parish that has 2 communites-the anglo/whie and Latino/Mexican. But it seems like the Latino/Mexican parish community only goes to Mass on Sundays and that’s it. I mean hardly any of them go to Mass during the week.

And the only other thing that they have is a Spanish prayer group on Thursday mornings. And they have a Eucharistic Holy Hour once a month-1st Fridays.

So I’m thinking, are they just cultural catholics or what? I mean, I try to take my faith and my relationship with God very seriously, you know what I mean???

Any thoughts or ideas on this?

Thanks…
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If you take your faith seriously, then why do you care what other people or other groups do?

My experience is that the Mexican’s in my area are more than willing to travel to far flung parishes for prayer meetings, adoration, spanish masses, day retreats, and they are not afraid to go door to door within their own community winning many converts and reverts.

You really don’t know what they are doing the rest of the week, meeting in people’s homes and in other parishes for other functions. The faith of the Mexican community in my area puts many Anglos to shame. They drive around in pickup trucks with Our Lady of Gaudalupe airbrushed on the side and wear coats and shirts with pictures of the Holy Father and Jesus and Mary on them. When the lights are on past 9:00 PM in my Church, you can bet that it is not an anglo function, but a bunch of Mexicans or Haitians praising God, doing the stations of the cross, having a novena, or something.

And no, I’m not a Mexican. 😃
 
Pfaffenhoffen said:
Am I hearing well? Maybe my english is faltering…Thus this mean the Mexican Catholics are “cafeteria catholic”? Or was my poor english that betrayed me?
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Absolutely not.

IMO, the OP’s comments are … well odd to me, in a few ways.
 
Pfaffenhoffen said:
Am I hearing well? Maybe my english is faltering…Thus this mean the Mexican Catholics are “cafeteria catholic”? Or was my poor english that betrayed me?
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Are you aware what the term “cultural catholic” actually means?
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P.S. It’s just a more modern term of “cafeteria catholic” .
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I didn’t read that at all in Barbkw post about Mexican Catholics. I think the replay was about the term “cultural catholic” is the same as “cafeteria catholic” without putting anyone, or culture in name. I go to a church with a Mexican priest for whom I LOVE dearly. We have a Mexican parish community also. I never though about it until now, but we don’t seem to mingle. That’s fine. I greet them as brothers and sisters. They greet me in return. “Cultural Catholics” or “Cafeteria Catholics” could be any or in all Cultures.

God Bless You!
 
ok, what I meant is- I’m single and I’m in RCIA for my sacrament of conversion and I go to both Masses there-in English and Spanish. But I’ve noticed that the latino/hispanic community in my parish don’t seem to be too devoted to daily Mass and a lot of them don’t recieve communion at Sunday Mass…
 
jason3477 said:
a lot of them don’t recieve communion at Sunday Mass…
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It pleases me when people don’t take Communion- not happy that they aren’t receiving, but happy that they respect the sacrament enough to not receive if they aren’t properly prepared. That’s rare in some places. Why does it matter to you? :confused:
 
jason3477 said:
ok, what I meant is- I’m single and I’m in RCIA for my sacrament of conversion and I go to both Masses there-in English and Spanish. But I’ve noticed that the latino/hispanic community in my parish don’t seem to be too devoted to daily Mass and a lot of them don’t recieve communion at Sunday Mass…
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I’m able to go to daily Mass (as a prodigal daughter of the Church) because I failed to have children.

My attendance at a daily Mass does not make me a more devoted Catholic than those who don’t attend daily Mass. Quite the opposite, these men and women are probably home, busy with their growing families.

P.S. It’s a personal relationship between a person and God as to why he/she doesn’t receive Eucharist. It’s unfortuneate, but it’s no indication as to the holiness of one person over that of another.

20 to 30 years back, it was unheard of that an entire parish would rise together and receive Eucharist enmass.
 
jason3477 said:
So I’m thinking, are they just cultural catholics or what? I mean, I try to take my faith and my relationship with God very seriously, you know what I mean???

Any thoughts or ideas on this?

Thanks…
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if your parish is primarily English speaking, how many activities are offered during the week in Spanish? If their first language is Spanish they may feel unwelcome to events that are announced or publicized only in English, or they may actually have been made to feel unwelcome when they do attend parish functions. First examine yourselves as parishioners before attempting to criticize the behavior of others.
jason3477 said:
ok, what I meant is- I’m single and I’m in RCIA for my sacrament of conversion and I go to both Masses there-in English and Spanish. But I’ve noticed that the latino/hispanic community in my parish don’t seem to be too devoted to daily Mass and a lot of them don’t recieve communion at Sunday Mass…
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this is not our experience down here, at least half the parishes daily Mass is usually Spanish, half English, and often, bilingual, and Mass attendance represents both groups equally.

another thing to keep in mind, depending on your area of the country. If the HIspanic speaking parishioners are primarily migrants who are only there half the year, they won’t be as visible, either.
 
In a nearby parish, there is a Wednesday night Mass in Spanish that is well-attended. First Fridays and Adoration appear to full of the local Hispanic faithful. Confession lines are long, and many will only confess to a Spanish-speaking confessor.
 
MS_SURVEYOR said:
I didn’t read that at all in Barbkw post about Mexican Catholics. I think the replay was about the term “cultural catholic” is the same as “cafeteria catholic” without putting anyone, or culture in name. I go to a church with a Mexican priest for whom I LOVE dearly. We have a Mexican parish community also. I never though about it until now, but we don’t seem to mingle. That’s fine. I greet them as brothers and sisters. They greet me in return. “Cultural Catholics” or “Cafeteria Catholics” could be any or in all Cultures.

God Bless You!
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No problem. I do not mind joking about other cultures. It is not racism, it means that you care about others. Racism is when you kill, maim, exerce violence on others. Pure jokes, I do not mind.

I was just teasing… As I am not american, I wanted to know how far one could go…
 
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