Question on registering at new parish

[Kielbasi]

I am not sure I understand the question. You have never heard of registering as a member of a parish?

Parish registration is a relatively new procedure, I’m not suprised that some haven’t heard of it. It only became popular in the last 50 years.

The traditional procedure is a door to door census in the parish, find out where the Catholics live at. Parish registration misses a lot of less active and inactive Catholics in the area, who may still request services from the priest some day and must still be ministered to (when they or their relatives request it)

 

[otjm]

I have a related question. Given all the religious politics that I have read. If a person was confirmed by a liberal Bishop at a NO Mass church not knowing that the English version was integrated with Protestantism, should that person get confirmed again at a Traditional Catholic church that offers a Tridentine Latin Masses?

In other words, wipe the slate clean and start over again?

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Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders are sacraments that are received one time. “Receiving” a second time is the sin of simulation and is considered a serious sin.

If you wish to deny the validity of the sacraments in their current format, you might wish to start another thread. And if you do so, please cite specifically your information backing that the Sacrament of Confirmation has been “integrated with Protestantism”, and in particular, how that could occur as Protestants don’t have a sacramental system, with the exception of what might be called “high church” - certain parts of the Lutherans, perhaps the Methodists, and the Episcopal/Anglican branch.

 

[otjm]

Thanks to everyone for answering my question. I think we will register at both parishes, for the times when we can’t make the drive to the FSSP. I just wonder if the NO parish will think I skip an awful lot of Sunday Masses!

It is my understanding that you can only be registered in one parish. You might start with the FSSP parish, and ask when you do register there, about whether you can or should attempt to be registered in two.

 

[jmcrae]

Thanks to everyone for answering my question. I think we will register at both parishes, for the times when we can’t make the drive to the FSSP. I just wonder if the NO parish will think I skip an awful lot of Sunday Masses!

If they ask, which I doubt they ever would, just tell them that you like to visit other parishes in your Diocese, as well.

I have a friend who considers himself a “registered parishioner” at six different parishes in the Diocese of Calgary, and so far, no one has ever questioned him.

 

[ASimpleSinner]

Parish registration is a relatively new procedure, I’m not suprised that some haven’t heard of it. It only became popular in the last 50 years.

50 years seems to be new enough to be old…

Of course, nothing is set in stone. My parents routinely “church hop” from parish to parish based on their sunday plans… If they are visiting parents or going out to the lake, or what not…

Some sundays (I work second shift) getting things in gear to make the 930 liturgy I like just doesn’t happen, so I go to the Noon, 2pm or 5:30 Masses that are closest to me…

 

[stbruno]

In most renewal of baptismal promises, there is a sprinkling of holy water/

 

[Melanie01]

It sounds awfully like a protestant thingy to me this registering thing…if you are a Mick that should be good enough the world over…maybe it is an American thingy do you get a pew ticket… a car place…so many parishes seem tobe amalgamated with maybe one priest…

the question relating to Confirmation…if you attend a conservative chapel and are not sure of the validity of the confirmation as a modern Catholic a conditional rite can be administered for the persons consolation as only God can know the intention of the bishop…this could be applied to just about all sacraments if the person was not certain about the ministering. Again it can be argued that the office is relevant rather than the sinner who is in the office if you like…does this make sense…

 

[otjm]

It sounds awfully like a protestant thingy to me this registering thing…if you are a Mick that should be good enough the world over…maybe it is an American thingy do you get a pew ticket… a car place…so many parishes seem tobe amalgamated with maybe one priest…

the question relating to Confirmation…if you attend a conservative chapel and are not sure of the validity of the confirmation as a modern Catholic a conditional rite can be administered for the persons consolation as only God can know the intention of the bishop…this could be applied to just about all sacraments if the person was not certain about the ministering. Again it can be argued that the office is relevant rather than the sinner who is in the office if you like…does this make sense…

If confirmation was administered by a bishop in good standing - and if he is the legitimate bishop of a legitimate diocese - there is absolutely no reason for any “conditional” administration of the sacrament again.

To question the validity of the currently administered sacraments is to head down the path of the SSPX at the minimum, and possibly to head down the path of the sedevacantists. Neither path is leading to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apsotolic Church.