Y'all Come Down. The Weather's Fine!

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plefe said:
I haven’t read all the responses to the thread here, and I’m not a very eloquent speaker, but I think there is a misconception. I’ve heard and seen the growth in the Catholic Church, or should I say the more liberal or secular movement within the Catholic Church. You know, the movement that puts limits on the Church’s Doctrine and Catechism of the Catholic Church. It’s now cool in the media to be Catholic, so we find ourselves inundated with converts. Priests who are converts or no longer old enough to have been witness to the True Faith of the Catholic Church i.e. pre-V2 changes and misinterpretations. There is however, a somewhat parallel Traditional movement that young people and converts alike have come to embrace. Small though it may be, compared to the New Age Catholic movement if you will, it bares attention and appreciation for its roots. There is a renewed seminarian vocation to Traditional practices in some circles. And though the Church in the US has been allowed to fall away from tradition (aren’t we special), increases in requests for the Latin Mass and Latin Right Liturgical activities have been realized, even if not the same as the increase in the New Age Catholic movement.

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Please stop this. Please don’t do that.

17,000,000 people joined the worldwide Catholic Church last year. Thats more people than belong to the whole Southern Baptist Convention. 2015 people were in the rite of Christian Election here in Atlanta last year. It took 45 mintues to read all the names. All these people joined because they love Jesus and Mary and because they believe the Holy Catholic Church to be the one true Church. Many Muslims joined here in Atlanta, and former Baptists. These didn’t join the Church because the media thinks its cool to be Catholic. Please stop that.

Please stop this nonsensical garbage about the true faith is pre-vatican II faith. Why don’t you come down to Atlanta from Montana and see the habited Dominican Sisters teaching at alll the schools and the minivans driving around with bumperstickers with a chalice and host and the words “I believe”.

Half the Churches down here have perpetual adoration. For crying out loud, we even have an FSSP parish for you if that is what you want. francisdesales.com/

-Tim-
 
Boulder257 said:
I have to give that one to the Bob Jones folks. Of course, there is no more dangerous place than a Catholic Church parking lot right after Communion! Start your engines!!! lol

I have a twisted sense of humor 😛
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Thats what it takes to survive here…lol!
 
TimothyH said:
Please stop this. Please don’t do that.

17,000,000 people joined the worldwide Catholic Church last year. Thats more people than belong to the whole Southern Baptist Convention. 2015 people were in the rite of Christian Election here in Atlanta last year. It took 45 mintues to read all the names. All these people joined because they love Jesus and Mary and because they believe the Holy Catholic Church to be the one true Church. Many Muslims joined here in Atlanta, and former Baptists. These didn’t join the Church because the media thinks its cool to be Catholic. Please stop that.

Please stop this nonsensical garbage about the true faith is pre-vatican II faith. Why don’t you come down to Atlanta from Montana and see the habited Dominican Sisters teaching at alll the schools and the minivans driving around with bumperstickers with a chalice and host and the words “I believe”.

Half the Churches down here have perpetual adoration. For crying out loud, we even have an FSSP parish for you if that is what you want. francisdesales.com/

-Tim-
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Tim, I think it is different depending on which part of the country. But you are right about here in the south, we have our 24/7 adoration chapel which is used by the truckloads. And an extremely non-new age congregation. I do see the Latin massers growing…and I am in that mass with them!!! Reverence and great music you can’t beat!
In Greenville I am totally surrounded by Catholics each and every day …its a very nice thing…
 
I grew up Catholic in South Carolina in the 60’s and early 70’s. Being Catholic back then placed one in a tiny minority except in Charleston and Columbia. Our Catholic heritage goes way back, catholic-doc.org/doc-history.php , but outside of a few cities, you were left to fend for yourself. It is remarkable how the influx of Northerners and Hispanics have helped grow our Parishes. In my area (upstate) we are seeing many converts as well. We are small, but Mighty!👍
 
Boulder257 said:
Maybe it’s cool in Montana, but not here in SC, lol. In all seriousness, I moved to SC from Ohio. In Ohio, everyone knew Catholic tradition and how to behave in a Catholic Church, even if they were not Catholic. It was understood, accepted, etc. In SC people look at me like I have three heads when I tell them I am Catholic. I can’t count the number of times people have responded with, “oh, well I’m Christian.” It takes everything I have not to say, well then why don’t you join the Church founded by Christ? 😛
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Really lol? I live…in the Midlands…and I’ve never had an experience like that.
 
Well, Northern Virginia isn’t the deep south, but when I first moved here I thought it was going to be rough going for me. Let me tell you, I have never seen such reverence. We have confession several times a week and every time I have to wait in a long line. The churches are full and they either have to build bigger churches (which they are) or creat new parishes (which they are). Currently we have the dioceses of Arlington and Richmond. Now there is talk of creating a third diocese (Charleston). My parish is the largest with over 5,000 families. Within the last 40 years 3 or 4 parishes sprung out of it.

Simply amazing. 😃
 
CatholicFireman said:
Well, Northern Virginia isn’t the deep south, but when I first moved here I thought it was going to be rough going for me. Let me tell you, I have never seen such reverence. We have confession several times a week and every time I have to wait in a long line. The churches are full and they either have to build bigger churches (which they are) or creat new parishes (which they are). Currently we have the dioceses of Arlington and Richmond. Now there is talk of creating a third diocese (Charleston). My parish is the largest with over 5,000 families. Within the last 40 years 3 or 4 parishes sprung out of it.

Simply amazing. 😃
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From my experience as compared to living in GA, KY, LA, VA, TN, and now TX; NoVA hardly resembles the south at all in most places.

Which parish do you go to? My wife and I attended All Saints in Manassas for several months before we moved away.

Peace,
 
CatholicFireman said:
Well, Northern Virginia isn’t the deep south, but when I first moved here I thought it was going to be rough going for me. Let me tell you, I have never seen such reverence. We have confession several times a week and every time I have to wait in a long line. The churches are full and they either have to build bigger churches (which they are) or creat new parishes (which they are). Currently we have the dioceses of Arlington and Richmond. Now there is talk of creating a third diocese (Charleston). My parish is the largest with over 5,000 families. Within the last 40 years 3 or 4 parishes sprung out of it.

Simply amazing. 😃
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Ha, a friend from the NY office of the company I work for just retired from Long Isand to coastal Virginia. Everyone was emailing him saying, “Good luck in your new life down south!” and such things. I’m like, yea :rolleyes:. For me Chattanooga is “Up North.” We go “Down South” to swim in the Gulf of Mexico. 😃

Many, many Connecticut Yankees in Virginia. It is good to hear about the reverence and growth. For us down south, we have to know our faith. Catholics here either learn their faith or become rock and roll, non-denominational Evangelicals. I have heard good things from people who whom I know who go to the mid-atlantic for business.

-Tim-
 
jwinch2 said:
From my experience as compared to living in GA, KY, LA, VA, TN, and now TX; NoVA hardly resembles the south at all in most places.

Which parish do you go to? My wife and I attended All Saints in Manassas for several months before we moved away.

Peace,
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Kentucky is a whoooooooole 'nother world. It’s like a whole different language. I’ll never forget driving on Stinking Creek Rd. with the windows open trying to find the creek.

East Tennesee too, where fryin’ pan throwin’ is an olympic sport handed down among women from generation to generation.

It gets rural real fast when you get outside the city.

-Tim-
 
TimothyH said:
Kentucky is a whoooooooole 'nother world. It’s like a whole different language. I’ll never forget driving on Stinking Creek Rd. with the windows open trying to find the creek.

East Tennesee too, where fryin’ pan throwin’ is an olympic sport handed down among women from generation to generation.

It gets rural real fast when you get outside the city.

-Tim-
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Yep, I spent a year at Fort Campbell and my wife and I just moved from right outside of Johnson City in TN to where we are now in Texas. I’m from the upper Midwest originally but due to time in the Army, grad school, and now work I have spent about 10 years living in the south in various places.

You aren’t kidding about East TN. You get outside of the Tri Cities and its like the Hatfields and McCoys. We lived right on the edge of the Cherokee National Forest and it was beautiful. My wife and I both came into the Church at St. Mary’s in Johnson City. Great parish with wonderful people.

Peace,
 
Boulder257 said:
That sure would be nice. I am in Greenville, SC. and I think Catholics make up 5% of the population both here in Greenville and in the state of SC. Of course, that’s up from 3% about 5 years ago, lol.
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It feels that way in the Virginia Coastal areas as well!
 
jwinch2 said:
From my experience as compared to living in GA, KY, LA, VA, TN, and now TX; NoVA hardly resembles the south at all in most places.

Which parish do you go to? My wife and I attended All Saints in Manassas for several months before we moved away.

Peace,
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You’re absolutely right. It’s the D.C. “suburbs”. I go to All Saints…you should see the new church! Seats 1,500.
 
TimothyH said:
Ha, a friend from the NY office of the company I work for just retired from Long Isand to coastal Virginia. Everyone was emailing him saying, “Good luck in your new life down south!” and such things. I’m like, yea :rolleyes:. For me Chattanooga is “Up North.” We go “Down South” to swim in the Gulf of Mexico. 😃

Many, many Connecticut Yankees in Virginia. It is good to hear about the reverence and growth. For us down south, we have to know our faith. Catholics here either learn their faith or become rock and roll, non-denominational Evangelicals. I have heard good things from people who whom I know who go to the mid-atlantic for business.

-Tim-
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LOL. That’s like living in NY. I grew up in Queens so anything north was “Upstate”, but the folks living upstate…the REAL upstate…called it “downstate”. Yes, there are a lot of Yankees here. Hardly any Southern accents by me.

There is a lot of reverence but you still have to be on your toes, especially with those who think they know the faith. But isn’t that true everywhere? 😉
 
Noted author, Flannery O’Connor once said that someday the greatest number of conversions in the U.S. would be in the South. It seemed absurd when she said it decades ago, but upon reflection, it does not.

My area (Ozarks) is not the Deep South, but it’s much more southern than not. We have a lot of conversions in my parish, mostly from Fundamentalist sects. Recalling another thing O’Connor said, she said southern Fundamentalists would be very surprised to learn that their beliefs are closer to those of the Catholic Church than they are to classic protestantism. Knowing a lot of them as I do, there is a lot of truth to it. Most of them just don’t know anything about the Church, and are surprised when someone tells them the truth about it.

Interesting too that our new bishop is from eastern Tenn, (very similar to here) a “second-generation hillbilly”, you might say (and he’s proud of his hillbilly roots). His grandparents were Baptists. Fits in like a hand in a glove.
 
CatholicFireman said:
You’re absolutely right. It’s the D.C. “suburbs”. I go to All Saints…you should see the new church! Seats 1,500.
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We saw it once. Its absolutely beautiful isn’t it? A wonderful example of how you can do a church with a more modern design and still have it look like a reverent place worthy of having the mass.
 
jwinch2 said:
We saw it once. Its absolutely beautiful isn’t it? A wonderful example of how you can do a church with a more modern design and still have it look like a reverent place worthy of having the mass.
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Yes, and I like that they moved the tabernacle to the front. 😉 👍
 
 
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