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Passing On Your Faith; to your own children
Topic Started: Tuesday, 13. November 2007, 01:40 (1,455 Views)
Mairtin
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Sunday, 17. October 2010, 16:15
It is not for us to write them off.
It's not a question of writing people off, our Church should be and is open to anyone no matter how tentative their faith. There needs, however, to be some element of that faith there or their participation/membership is meaningless.

We shouldn't bluff ourselves that many of the great numbers who used to attend Sunday Mass were all devout Catholics, committed to their Church - many of them had no interest whatsoever in the Church, going to Mass was just the 'done thing' for them.

I take more inspiration from the relatively modest crowds who attend Mass nowadays, knowing that they have made a positive to attend because they want to be there compared to the vast crowds I remember at some of my childhood Masses where half the congregation came in late and cleared off as soon as Holy Communion was over.
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By the way, I don't know the reason for it or even if it's significant but attendance at Mass in our parish seems to have increased substantially over the last few weeks.
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Mairtin
Sunday, 17. October 2010, 16:42
I take more inspiration from the relatively modest crowds who attend Mass nowadays...
I bet fewer people attend my church than yours, Mairtin! :angel:
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Mairtin
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Clare
Sunday, 17. October 2010, 17:28
Mairtin
Sunday, 17. October 2010, 16:42
I take more inspiration from the relatively modest crowds who attend Mass nowadays...
I bet fewer people attend my church than yours, Mairtin! :angel:
Clare

If a vernacular Mass was not available to me, I would have no hesitation in attending a Tridentine one and I'm sure that I would feel myself among earnest Catholics. The issues I have with SSPX and their folllowers are to do with their attitude towards the rest of the Church; I have never ever questioned their very obvious commitment to their Faith.
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Mairtin
Sunday, 17. October 2010, 16:44
By the way, I don't know the reason for it or even if it's significant but attendance at Mass in our parish seems to have increased substantially over the last few weeks.
I would guess its real and for two reasons;

1. The boil has been lanced.
2. Ireland has also beneited from the remarkable overshadowing of the Holy Spirit during the Papal visit to the UK.

Gerry
"The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998).
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Mairtin
Sunday, 17. October 2010, 16:42
I remember at some of my childhood Masses where half the congregation came in late and cleared off as soon as Holy Communion was over.
The only people I ever saw do that at a Novus Ordo Mass were Irish Travellers. They'd come in (usually after nicking the paper money!), receive Holy Commmunion then leave again.
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