What makes a good church?

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vsedriver said:
Has your Catholic Church no programs? No bible study? No women’s auxiliary for the KofC?
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If she’s not Catholic…can she even be part of a women’s auxiliary/volunteer with them?
TheLittleLady said:
volunteer opportunities?
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What kind of volunteer opportunities are usually available for non-Catholic Christians? I’ve basically been told “all we’ve got is music”. Heck, I was never on the roster for the festival. My wife said since I wasn’t a member I wouldn’t be part of volunteering.

Could be an misunderstanding somewhere, but I’ve looked into ushering too and can’t even do that.
 
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TC3033 said:
What kind of volunteer opportunities are usually available for non-Catholic Christians? I’ve basically been told “all we’ve got is music”. Heck, I was never on the roster for the festival. My wife said since I wasn’t a member I wouldn’t be part of volunteering.

Could be an misunderstanding somewhere, but I’ve looked into ushering too and can’t even do that.
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I am not a member at my wife’s Protestant church and could volunteer. I was a greeter and teller.

Other than EMHC, I don’t see any legitimate issue with a Protestant volunteering at a Catholic Church.
 
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TC3033 said:
Could be an misunderstanding somewhere, but I’ve looked into ushering too and can’t even do that.
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I find that weird. Not only am I not Catholic, but I’m a protestant minister and I’m on the list of the people “my” Catholic parish calls when they need someone to fill in as a Cantor or as an organist.
 
TheLittleLady said:
There are two regular posters here, you and a man who is married to a Catholic, and it breaks my heart that each of you are in such parishes.
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You are the other poster 🙂 Every meeting or planning session, I am very attuned that it be something that would not make you feel excluded if you were a parishioner here.
 
@TheLittleLady

Bless you, Little Lady!

I’ve been reading CAF since around 2006 and joined around 2008. System glitches after the format change lasted so long that my attempts to log on became so infrequent that I can no longer remember my old name. (Heart attacks befuzzle the brain sometimes.) Anyhow, I’ve been around for a long time. I recently stuck with it because I wanted to tell a man that I was so touched by what he’d written about his wife, and then, to my dismay, I couldn’t find the thread.

We’ve had many, many regular posters in these past 13 years and I really miss some of them, both those who just stopped participating, and those who were killed off by mods. I was devastated by the loss of some of these unknown friends; I’ve both wept and prayed for many of them, hoping that all is going well in their worlds.

You, dear LittleLady, are one of a kind and I’m so grateful for having met you. I like your cutting to the nitty-gritty, your practicality, your faith in God, your trust in Jesus, your ability to plod on when the plodding’s been overwhelming, your tenacity and perseverance, your ability to find and celebrate joy and love in this beautiful life that God has given to us, even amidst adversity, and then there’s your perpetual kindness exhibited in your love for your fellowman, which you’ve so frequently demonstrated, as in this post to TV3033.

Lol! I’m not saying you’re perfect, and I do disagree with you on occasion, but you’re Special, Little Lady, and a good role model to us. May God bless you and your precious family. 😇
 
It has to be Biblical. My pastor always says “What the Bible says is more important than anything I have to say”. It also should have gatherings devoted to prayer. “My house shall be a house of prayer”, as Isaiah 56:7 says.
 
They are a super blast!! Everyone brings their own food, decorates the table, there is a “team spirit” award and some people get really creative. It is fun to go sample food at other tables.
 
A good church is one that keeps its Masses at well under and hour long.
Ours used to be a good church.
 
Thank you! I try to be polite and helpful. Most of the time, I can keep to looking at Protestantism with an almost anthropologist’s eye.
 
Surely you jest! 😱 In my Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Divine Liturgy is at least an hour long (and if Father is really on fire, about 1.25 hours). On Pascha, Nativity Eve (Dec. 24), Theophany Eve (Jan. 5) and Theophany (Jan. 6), we’re in church for at least 2-3 hours!
 
Well…not exactly jesting. Our parish of 20 years has had its Mass length grow longer and longer to the point that my wife is starting to advocate a switch to another parish that can get us in and out in less than an hour.
 
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Surely you jest! 😱 In my Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Divine Liturgy is at least an hour long (and if Father is really on fire, about 1.25 hours). On Pascha, Nativity Eve (Dec. 24), Theophany Eve (Jan. 5) and Theophany (Jan. 6), we’re in church for at least 2-3 hours!
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BUT…but…I bet there’s something important filling all that time. In our parish, we’re now doing every verse of every song. The priest take forever to wash out the chalices. Etc etc etc. it’s just empty time I’m talking about.
Granted, the priest is new and it’s his first full-sized parish, and maybe he’ll get more efficient.
 
I understand. It doesn’t help when the music director is doing the announcements right after the Eucharist and just before Dismissal.
 
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