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By far, the most dangerous moments of my everyday life occur when I’m crossing my parish parking lot. What is wrong with society!? We stick prolife bumper stickers on our car and then elbow our way out to our car practically before “Mass has ended. Go in peace” has made it out of the priest’s mouth so we can tear around the parking lot, endangering children, the elderly, and anyone unfortunate enough to be walking down the sidewalk at that moment!
Last week the big story on the news was of a little 2nd grade girl who was killed while crossing the street, and yet on the same Sunday I almost had a panic attack when three tiny kids who for whatever reason were being allowed to run around the parking lot darted out from behind an SUV right in front of my car. Fortunately it was just me and not one of the cars going 45 miles an hour past a playground and soccer field!
This week, I was waiting in line in the driveway to exit the lot and an elderly woman who could barely see over the steering while almost backed into my broadside, right where my precious infant was seated. I blared the horn and (Thank God!) she stopped! But seriously! She JUST walked past me before she got in her car! And there were wheel ruts in the flower bed by the rectory that Father JUST planted! How is someone going fast enough in a parish/school parking lot that they can’t stop?
A few weeks ago, two tween brothers literally mowed into a line of several parishioners who I guess weren’t moving out the door fast enough for them. They rammed into my toddler and if I hadn’t been holding her hand, they would have knocked her down the concrete steps! Then their father started elbowing his way through to follow them! Well, I guess it was doughnut Sunday, after all!
What is all this savagery!?!? Now I know why some people leave right after communion. It’s nothing against Our Lord, but hey’re trying to escape alive and avoid spending Monday on the phone with someone’s insurance company!
 
You have reason to be upset, but to call it “savagery” when a middle-school boy or even his dad don’t know how to slow down in a crowd is a bit over the top.

And no, this is unlikely to be the reason people leave early after communion. That is more likely to be so that they can be first in line where ever it is that everyone else in a hurry is in such a hurry to be.
 
Try another mass time…talk to the priest…get a few parishoners to chip in and put in a surviellance camera for the parking lot…or get some of the scchool kids to stand out there videoing some of the problems…shaming is particularly good with catholics! Just sayin’!
 
I don’t see this happening in my parish. Perhaps the culture in yours has become accepting of rudeness and hurrying. Perhaps if Father mentioned in his homily slowing down and giving other people room, and being more careful in the parking lot, it could be pulled back to civility.

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Viki63 said:
I don’t see this happening in my parish. Perhaps the culture in yours has become accepting of rudeness and hurrying. Perhaps if Father mentioned in his homily slowing down and giving other people room, and being more careful in the parking lot, it could be pulled back to civility.

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Considering the tooth-rattling height of some of the speed bumps in church and parish school parking lots, this can’t be a totally isolated situation.
 
Sadly, the exercise of patience as a form of penance has yet to catch on.

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I personally would stay in church and pehaps light a candle and and say an extra prayer for 5 or 10 minutes. Then most would be cleared out.
 
It is savagery. It’s a blatant disregard for others. Considering we are all temples of the Holy Spirit it’s awful.
 
mommy_k said:
I personally would stay in church and pehaps light a candle and and say an extra prayer for 5 or 10 minutes. Then most would be cleared out.
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That’s a good idea, but we actually usually have to stay late anyway, as my husband is the organist and we have to clean up and put things right for the next Mass. Part of the issue is that the next Mass follows really close behind the previous one and people are rushing out at the same time others rush in.
 
EasterJoy said:
Considering the tooth-rattling height of some of the speed bumps in church and parish school parking lots, this can’t be a totally isolated situation.
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It’s certainly new to me! However, when I came home today I saw a four car pile-up in front of a Catholic Church that is on a road with a 30MPH speed limit. How are people able to hit each other going that slow? It must have been a serious accident because I could hear the sirens from my house at intervals for at least ten minutes, including the really loud one that the fire department sends out with the paramedics.
 
EasterJoy said:
You have reason to be upset, but to call it “savagery” when a middle-school boy or even his dad don’t know how to slow down in a crowd is a bit over the top.

And no, this is unlikely to be the reason people leave early after communion. That is more likely to be so that they can be first in line where ever it is that everyone else in a hurry is in such a hurry to be.
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I submit that the place in question might easily be called “not here”. And I still say that knocking a baby down concrete stairs for a cruller is pretty savage.
 
Allegra said:
I submit that the place in question might easily be called “not here”. And I still say that knocking a baby down concrete stairs for a cruller is pretty savage.
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We live in an age with a shocking amount of true savagery, so it hardly seems right to employ that world on gross incivilities.
 
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