I attend the next parish over rather than the one I'm in because shortly after we moved here and were looking for a parish (while still attending our old one at least half the time) the priest at the parish we lived in had a tendency to not "say the black and do the red" but worse he came close to simulating a sacrament (in a "healing ma…
I attend the next parish over rather than the one I'm in because shortly after we moved here and were looking for a parish (while still attending our old one at least half the time) the priest at the parish we lived in had a tendency to not "say the black and do the red" but worse he came close to simulating a sacrament (in a "healing mass" he blessed oil with the prayer from the chrism mass for the oil of the sick, then annointed parishioners who wanted it, then handed the oil to a nun and had her annoint him). That was the final straw although there was also disobedience about the vatican directive against using the tetragrammaton in worship, and just a generally insipid, not very reverent worship to begin with. I have a responsibility to raise my children in the faith, not some horrible watered down version that only inoculates them against the faith. To me, in part, that means that we attend a parish where liturgy is done according to the books and norms and is at least done with some reverence, even if it doesn't usually have all the beautiful "smells and bells". Interestingly, we're about to be paired with that parish and a third significantly more traditional parish as our own archdiocese "clusters" parishes into "families" and no one really quite knows how this will impact worship at the three parishes. We are already doing our religious education together.
I attend the next parish over rather than the one I'm in because shortly after we moved here and were looking for a parish (while still attending our old one at least half the time) the priest at the parish we lived in had a tendency to not "say the black and do the red" but worse he came close to simulating a sacrament (in a "healing mass" he blessed oil with the prayer from the chrism mass for the oil of the sick, then annointed parishioners who wanted it, then handed the oil to a nun and had her annoint him). That was the final straw although there was also disobedience about the vatican directive against using the tetragrammaton in worship, and just a generally insipid, not very reverent worship to begin with. I have a responsibility to raise my children in the faith, not some horrible watered down version that only inoculates them against the faith. To me, in part, that means that we attend a parish where liturgy is done according to the books and norms and is at least done with some reverence, even if it doesn't usually have all the beautiful "smells and bells". Interestingly, we're about to be paired with that parish and a third significantly more traditional parish as our own archdiocese "clusters" parishes into "families" and no one really quite knows how this will impact worship at the three parishes. We are already doing our religious education together.