Less so
if at every parish gathering there are people questioning the nature of God or challenging the understanding of the Eucharist.
Not exact matches
Qatar is probably not the first place people think about when they imagine Christianity in the Middle East (
if they imagine it
at all), and indeed, there is only a single Orthodox
parish in the whole country.
Well, it would certainly be the best place
if you just want to absorb them within the local
parish, while hijacking their clergy -
at first to «help out», and then, who knows?
Such differences were denied by the participants in these
parishes who,
if they countenanced distinctions
at all, would confine them to matters of practice (worship patterns, frequency of Scripture reading, baptism) and not faith.
Reflecting on his experience of attending seminary after first gaining considerable experience in the
parish, one older participant wondered
if maybe we're doing it backwards»; in other words, perhaps schools ought somehow to require practical experience before — or
at the beginning of — formal education (such an arrangement would, of course, run counter to essentially all currently respected educational theories) For himself, he said, the practical application of what was being taught in seminary was plain in light of his experience of
parish ministry.
I'm scared because I'm a relatively well - known person in that
parish and
if it were known that I'm an agnostic
at the least, I know of what will happen.
If parishes begin to recover the idea of a sung Mass, rather than a Mass
at which things are sung, that will be a great improvement to the celebration of the Liturgy.
Even though we know that their domestic family is the first place where they should learn the faith, in truth many only really begin to learn it,
if at all, in the Catholic School which is increasingly having to b e in loco parentisi n a unique way and which links the child to the widerChurch family through the
parish.
The non-Fascist, the anti-Fascist, was approaching a point
at which he would have to ask himself whether the
parish church was still his church; he was now having to go to mass early in the morning
if he wished to avoid the sermon, which too often comprised a full - scale attack on all the democratic, masonic Governments which were opposing the providential plans of the Duce.
* About the Don Camillo books: Starting in 1946, Giovannino Guareschi wrote more than 300 stories about the hot - headed
parish priest Don Camillo, and his battles with the communist major Peppone, all set in the Po Valley of Northern Italy -
if you're not familiar with these stories I do suggest you look them up, all appear to be out of print now but you can find plentiful used copies
at Addall.com and Amazon, and probably in your local library).
If you are involved in a parent group,
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