{"id":1905,"date":"2011-02-23T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2015-03-13T17:30:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:30:48","slug":"what-catholics-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/02\/what-catholics-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What Catholics don't know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

That\u2019s the notion I\u2019m chewing on this week over in my column, \u201cAll Things New.\u201d<\/p>\n

A snip:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A couple years ago, during Easter season, a man stopped me after church one Sunday.<\/p>\n

He was perturbed. \u201cWhat\u2019s all this Latin doing in the mass?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this Latin<\/em>!\u201d he said, exasperated. \u201cI thought they took that out. I don\u2019t understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I explained that, well, it is<\/em> the Easter season, and some of the prayers at a couple points in the mass are sung in Latin, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I wish they\u2019d stop it,\u201d he snapped. \u201cIt\u2019s divisive.\u201d He then proceeded to go on and on about the Kyrie.<\/p>\n

Which, of course, is in Greek.<\/p>\n

Working as a deacon, I brush up against this sort of thing a lot, and it\u2019s easy to draw the conclusion that the situation is beyond repair.<\/p>\n

And yet, I continue to see reasons to hope. On a recent Monday night, I wandered past the meeting room in the rectory basement and saw that it was packed with thirty or so adults for Bible study. On any given Sunday, about 2,000 people fill the pews at my church for mass. They line up every weekday for confessions. They light candles and pray the rosary and bow devotedly before the Infant of Prague or St. Anthony or St. Jude, whose feet are almost always covered with tiny folded prayer petitions.<\/p>\n

People turn out in droves for novenas to Padre Pio and St. Jean Vianney, and they fill every seat on a Saturday night in spring for the three hours of the Easter Vigil. They come for ashes, and palms, and the blessing of the throats, and they crowd the pews during Lent to pray the Stations of the Cross on a succession of cold Friday nights.<\/p>\n

But why?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have some ideas on that.\u00a0 Check out the rest<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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