tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post4030659818416401314..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Congregations: A Sunday RuminationFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-42059190302869675482019-05-08T18:08:49.479-04:002019-05-08T18:08:49.479-04:00Fran I started noticing long ago the tradition I g...Fran I started noticing long ago the tradition I grew up with in church. Not Catholic mind you but I always observed a procession of greeting the minister upon exit after the service. In the last few years and most recently my current minister a very young but excellent one exits the service and is available for greeting in the middle of the open area behind the sanctuary. I generally make it a point to go speak to him but few do as well. Mostly it is as described as you say a rush to the door and I think it is sad we humans do not seek more access with him. I just keep praying and asking for forgiveness. Thanks as always for your writingBear Claw Chris Lapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01190524236686025884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-61028062299725103462019-05-07T05:09:13.241-04:002019-05-07T05:09:13.241-04:00Fran,
Well said, your insight has touched me agai...Fran,<br /><br />Well said, your insight has touched me again. Deeply.<br /><br />As a convert of only seven years, the Novus Ordo mass is all I have known. So far. Mostly the people in our parish are respectful, quiet, and focused on becoming that congregation, as Father Guardini wrote.<br /><br />When others are less reverent it has become my practice to focus my prayer on them. This usually helps me through it. The Latin Mass is definitely in our future. Peace.milton fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222904984648426127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-25447030190416239692019-05-05T13:57:32.228-04:002019-05-05T13:57:32.228-04:00Fran-
Find yourself an FSSP parish, or other Extra...Fran-<br />Find yourself an FSSP parish, or other Extraordinary Form Mass. I returned to the Church in ‘10, after a 40 year absence, but the “community” noise, lack of reverence, sloppy dress, & crappy music in the NO inspired me to find an EF church. <br />We now attend an FSSP ‘personal parish’ that opened in ‘16, & haven’t looked back. Women are mostly in dresses & veiled, most men are in jackets & ties, & the only real ‘noise’ is from squawking kids (children at Mass!). <br />It’s a 40+/- minute one way drive for us, but worth it. doubletroublehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04378163493817522427noreply@blogger.com