Every parish in Steubenville is being closed

[Brother Adam]

Bishop Conlin announced tonight that every parish in Steubenville is being shut down accept for two - St. Peters and Holy Family. Sad day indeed.

[Guest Eremite]

How big is the city?

[Brother Adam]

Big enough that every mass at every parish is packed each sunday.

[jezic]

why?

[Aloysius]

this doesn't make sense....

[philothea]

No kidding, it doesn't make sense to me either. I figured it was a joke when I saw the subject.

[Brother Adam]

It's not a joke. It was on News 9 tonight and came out of the mouth of the Bishop. It will be implimented over the next two years. My guess is a serious lack of stewardship. They can't afford to keep the doors open.

[Guest Eremite]

Maybe the priests are needed elsewhere...

[Apotheoun]

That's sad news; and it will make it hard for students who like to go to Mass off campus.

[Brother Adam]

While that is possible, there are not many to begin with. More than one parish shares a priest already. I hope to find out more Sunday at mass or Monday as school.

[disturbedxfairy]

wow!

...all i can say

[God Conquers]

This seems to be popular lately...

Unfortunately its necessary in many dioceses.

TITHE!!!!!!!

[franciscanheart]

thats crazy. its absolutely nuts i say. a sad day....

[iggy]

wow.

[Don John of Austria]

This is somthing my friends and I have discussed endlessly, I do not tithe, of course I am a church employee and make 2/3rds of what I would make if I worked at even a low paying public school district, I simply cannot afford to Tithe in addition to the 1/3rd of my income I am already giving up. However I have a friend who tithe's no matter what even when he lost his job 10% of his last check went into the offering plate, 10% of his unemployment went into the offering plate ect. Once when our priest was discussing the subject with him ( the factthat most people do not tithe) he brought up a very simple solution-- "give the people whatthey pay for, if collections are down turn of the AC ( if you lived in Houston you would understand the magnatude of that statement in a modern designed church) or turn off the lights, most people are going to give what they really can if the go into a church which is dark from lack of electricity, all of these things should be done before the parish itself is closed. How often is that done... in my diocese never.

[Catholictothecore]

this is sad....prayers for all Stubenvillers.

[Fides_et_Ratio]

However, after attending Mass at Holy Rosary (I think)... it's probably for the best that it's being closed... my youth minister, me, and the priest were the only ones singing along, the organist maybe knew 3 notes, maybe 5 people were dressed like they were at Mass, and they announced the family bringing up the gifts and said something about Mr. so-and-so was a successful businessman in the area, and lastly, all but 5 people (the same 5 who looked like they were at a Mass) left the Church before the priest processed down the aisle at the conclusion of the celebration.

One of the worst parishes I've ever been to.

[Brother Adam]

That's about the opposite of what I have experienced there and I've been about a dozen times.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='Don John of Austria' date='Jun 17 2005, 09:13 PM'][. . .]  or turn off the lights, most people are  going to give what they really can if the go into a church which is dark from lack of electricity, all of these things should be done before the parish itself is closed. How often is that done... in my diocese never.
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As a little side note, I like Churches that don't have a lot of bright lighting. Every time that I've gone to the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in SF it's dark and it's lit mainly by candles. It's beautiful.

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[Fides_et_Ratio]

[quote name='Brother Adam' date='Jun 18 2005, 12:30 AM']That's about the opposite of what I have experienced there and I've been about a dozen times.
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It might not have been Holy Rosary... that's why I said "I think" in parathesis... it wasn't Holy Family, but I was thinking it was Holy something... I'd have to ask my youth minister.