{"id":843,"date":"2010-08-03T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2010\/08\/a-roman-crapshoot\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:39:40","slug":"a-roman-crapshoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2010\/08\/a-roman-crapshoot.html","title":{"rendered":"a Roman crapshoot…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026 whenever I travel I have a decision to make. Which parish to attend to fulfill my Sunday obligation. This can be a particularly risky venture when visiting a church you are not familiar with. You never know what you\u2019ll get\u2026 tambourines and dancing women balancing bowls of incense on their heads. It\u2019s a crapshoot\u2026. if you are a Roman. <\/p>\n

Being Eastern Rite this isn\u2019t an issue. A Divine Liturgy is a Divine Liturgy is a Divine Liturgy. <\/p>\n

It saddens me to make plans to attend mass and have friends suddenly warn me not attend a specific parish. How was I to know; how does any one know? They have parish directories. Even Latin mass directories. Maybe there should be a directory for, being charitable and not saying the \u201cH\u201d word, \u201cliberal\u201d parishes. So those who prefer to worship in the horizontal can not be shocked to stumble into a parish with incense pluming from thuribles instead of whirling Dervishes. I can only imagine how horrible that would be for them.<\/p>\n

I only have every one\u2019s best interest at heart. <\/p>\n

Which brings me back to Divine Liturgy. I think the concept of having \u201cspecial\u201d liturgies to fit every one\u2019s spiritual needs to be contradictory to the universal nature of the church. Isn\u2019t the point of having a Universal Church that you can celebrate mass anywhere in the world and it be mass? I have found myself in some Roman churches actually afraid<\/strong> to receive the Blessed Sacrament because the whole liturgy was so befuddled and convoluted and con-celebrated with pastors of different faiths. Yes, afraid. <\/p>\n

I hear the argument that people are entitled to worship in the manner they are most comfortable. But are they really? Is that a legitimate \u201centitlement\u201d? If the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass isn\u2019t about \u201cus\u201d, but instead Christ, than why is there such a focus and movement among the Romans to have tailored liturgies\u2026 Charismatic Catholics, Hippy Mass, Halloween Mass, Children and Teen Masses\u2026 you get the idea.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t something that one sees in the Eastern Church. At least I have not encountered a similar phenomenon among the Byzantines. <\/p>\n

Discuss.<\/p>\n


an oldie, but goodie motivational poster created ages ago by Steve.<\/p>\n

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