“I will not celebrate the Liturgy in a way that makes ME uncomfortable.”
but it does capture the prevailing liturgical paradigm of presider as bachelor uncle with a model railroad.
(via Dad29)
Friday, September 28, 2007
Looking for Liturgical “Fatherhood”
Sure, it's an anonymous weblog quoting an unnamed pastor,
but it does capture the prevailing liturgical paradigm of presider as bachelor uncle with a model railroad.
(via Dad29)
but it does capture the prevailing liturgical paradigm of presider as bachelor uncle with a model railroad.
(via Dad29)
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The blogger may be anonymous, but he tells you that Mass attendance at his parish is plummeting from a reported highest 61% in his district. He even provides a link to archdiocesan data. That would make it St. John the Evangelist in Kohler.
ReplyDelete...which parish is now "pastored" by an ex-Newman Center priest.
ReplyDeleteHere: we can make this really easy. No planning sessions, no bullsh*t. Since very few pastors seem to think the Mass anything other than a community building vehicle (attendance data shows them woefully ignorant of the truth on this one) and an opportunity to do a little stand-up once a week--never mind the rubrics or what we're really about here--that'll really make the parish think it's a vibrant, spirit-filled place (again, honest parishioner feedback would indicate otherwise--they just want a reverent, honest, simple Mass and nothing more or less!). Let's just close the places where the pastors don't think enough of the Eucharist to treat it with dignity. Those who were there merely for "the show" are out of luck. Everybody else floods the three or four remaining places where reverence can be found and where they have a shot at learning holiness. Collections at those places skyrocket because the people are meeting their Lord in the sacraments (and maybe some realy good classes led by really great periests) week after week. These places, though there are fewer of them, are full to bursting. But the "vibrance" is real, not manufactured, and the path to holiness, though difficult and long, is not paved over with platitudes and wilful disobedience.
ReplyDeleteThere. I've just taken care of a whole bunch of planning for these bureaucratic savants. Will someone now make me the vicar of something? Please?
...but it does capture the prevailing liturgical paradigm of presider as bachelor uncle with a model railroad.
ReplyDelete...is the best line I've heard in months! I'm sure I'll be using it sometime soon. And you can pretty much bet that the recipient won't think it's too funny, but, hey; I also have to endure "Have a nice day!" instead of "Go in peace to love and serve the Lord." so I think turnabout is fair play.
ApocalypseAl: Besides all that, those remaining parishes will ALSO offer Confessions 4 hours/day--plus before Masses on Sundays.
ReplyDeleteAnd the lines will be long....
Finally...
ReplyDeleteAnyone who believes that "clericalism is dead" needs treatment.