Today a survey replaced the homily

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Today, we had a church survey replace the homily. Has anyone else ever have a priest do this? The ushers came around and picked it up, after about a ten minute period of silence. I refused to do it and filled it out after Mass, and turned it in…sigh. I found this very distrubing…what say you?
 
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PassthePeace1:
Today, we had a church survey replace the homily. Has anyone else ever have a priest do this? The ushers came around and picked it up, after about a ten minute period of silence. I refused to do it and filled it out after Mass, and turned it in…sigh. I found this very distrubing…what say you?
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At my parish, the laity give homilies so nothing suprises me anymore.
 
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PassthePeace1:
Today, we had a church survey replace the homily. Has anyone else ever have a priest do this? The ushers came around and picked it up, after about a ten minute period of silence. I refused to do it and filled it out after Mass, and turned it in…sigh. I found this very distrubing…what say you?
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I don’t know where you live, but my folks live on the Florida Panhandle and tonight they told me the same thing happened in their Church. I was horrified and so were they. They couldn’t remember if the woman who distributed the survey was from the Bishop’s office. Do you have any information about the origin of the survey? I was going to e-mail the Archdiocese in their city to get the scoop.
 
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blessedtoo:
I don’t know where you live, but my folks live on the Florida Panhandle and tonight they told me the same thing happened in their Church. I was horrified and so were they. They couldn’t remember if the woman who distributed the survey was from the Bishop’s office. Do you have any information about the origin of the survey? I was going to e-mail the Archdiocese in their city to get the scoop.
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I live in Texas, ours was from the Parish Council. Please let me know what the Archdiocese says in that area.
 
I would have written in on the survey that I didn’t find today’s homily very edifying.

I’ve had surveys handed out to me during Mass, but I don’t recall anything actually replacing the homily. Maybe before Mass, at the end of Mass, or following the homily.
 
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I would have written in on the survey that I didn’t find today’s homily very edifying.

I’ve had surveys handed out to me during Mass, but I don’t recall anything actually replacing the homily. Maybe before Mass, at the end of Mass, or following the homily.
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:rotfl: I wish I thought of that one.

Why would following the homily be okay too? I can see before and after…but following the homily, would still be a distraction during Mass.
 
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:rotfl: I wish I thought of that one.

Why would following the homily be okay too? I can see before and after…but following the homily, would still be a distraction during Mass.
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I suppose that an argument could be made that:

A) You want the people to actually stick around and fill out the survey. Lots of things tend to get talked about during the homily itself or as a post homily talk for this reason, practically.

B) The priest might nuance his homily to discuss the importance of whatever it is that the survey deals with, then ask the people to fill out the survey as a follow-up to that.

This might not be an ideal situation, but I can see why some parishes might try to work it in like that.
 
Neighboring parish - Priest wore pink vestments, holy water fonts were filled with purple fish tank pebbles and a woman did the homily.

Get this though - chalices were gold, no pouring was done after Consecration.

Puzzling. :confused:
 
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Neighboring parish - Priest wore pink vestments, holy water fonts were filled with purple fish tank pebbles and a woman did the homily.

Get this though - chalices were gold, no pouring was done after Consecration.

Puzzling. :confused:
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Well the ‘pink’ vestments were because it was Laetare Sunday so that was appropriate. But purple pebbles?
 
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Well the ‘pink’ vestments were because it was Laetare Sunday so that was appropriate. But purple pebbles?
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Thanks for the vestment info. :bowdown:
 
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Get this though - chalices were gold, no pouring was done after Consecration.
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I actually don’t see a problem with either of these, it is now common practice to pour out before the consecration so that you don’t have any spillage of the sacred blood, and glass or Crystal chalices are not really recommended because of the problem of someone dropping and breaking the cup filled with precious blood. I have seen this happen by accident and it is embarassing and problematic. The chalices at our parish are gold colored also, and I belong to a VERY orthodox parish!
 
Purple pebbles are wierd, and woman doing the homily (unless it was a special guest speaker elaborating after Father did a mini-homily, which we have had happen before too. Father was talking about stewardship and helping those less fortunate in our community, how it was part of our Christian responcibilty, and a woman who had been helped by one of our Parish homeless programs gave a testimony).
 
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Purple pebbles are wierd, and woman doing the homily (unless it was a special guest speaker elaborating after Father did a mini-homily, which we have had happen before too. Father was talking about stewardship and helping those less fortunate in our community, how it was part of our Christian responcibilty, and a woman who had been helped by one of our Parish homeless programs gave a testimony).
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Nope - no mini-homily. The woman gave a short homily and was selling “mission”. And she received applause before and after the talk.
 
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