The Sunday before the training was going to begin, I decided to hear
mass at our parish church, Our Lady of Fatima in Mandaluyong.
Not exact matches
At Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a mass audience through a televised sermon delivered at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish churc
At Easter, 1965, I attempted to present the «good news» of Christ's Resurrection to a
mass audience through a televised sermon delivered
at a service of Holy Communion in a great parish churc
at a service of Holy Communion in a great
parish church.
At Joe's first
mass, Father Stock, his old
parish pastor and a money - grubber, takes advantage of having two newly ordained celebrants in his
parish to take up a special collection.
That is, most study in diocesan seminaries and are trained to work in the more familiar Catholic settings of
parishes - celebrating
Masses, baptizing children, presiding
at marriages and working closely with families in their
parish.
The missionaries speak
at the Sunday
Masses and invite the youth of the
parish to come to the sessions during the week.
In any case, it seems fitting to report that on Easter morning 1966, Evelyn Waugh collapsed and died after attending solemn high
mass (in Latin, of course)
at his
parish church in Somerset.
Coffee and donuts after
mass help, greeters
at the door help, but as we all well know, Catholics can attend the same
parish for years on end and not know any other person there.
Because Catholic
parishes did not regularly record attendance, we counted Catholic
mass attendance ourselves by attending each scheduled
mass at every Catholic
parish in the county.
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.
Today, though conditions vary from
parish to
parish, we encounter less ferment, more continuity and participation, and sometimes downright enthusiasm
at Sunday
mass.