You’re kidding, right? Our youth group seems to exist for one reason only, fundraising. The prevailing attitude is, “We raised the money so we’ll tell the parish what to do with it.”
One of the leaders often criticizes parishioners who don’t come to Mass, yet if you say, “Yes, it’s too bad that they don’t attend more often,” she’ll reply that she really doesn’t care if they’re at Mass but they should be giving their fair share of money to the parish. Then she’ll complain that because 3 of the Saturday evening Masses were cancelled by the priest who was covering our parish in November, she as a result didn’t get to go to Mass that month. Ask why she didn’t go to the Sunday Masses she’ll tell you that she and her extended family don’t ‘do Sundays’.
