Archaeology cat Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 [quote name='CatherineM' post='1800490' date='Mar 8 2009, 07:04 PM']It's silly to shoe string budgets for 3 churches within a mile of each other on the same street.[/quote] I know. The priest who baptised Kieran runs three parishes, all within 1.5-2 miles of each other. The Archbishop tried to take one of them to have as a permanent place for the TLM to be celebrated, but the people didn't want to give up their status as a parish. Father is trying to prepare the people that one of them will have to close in the next few years, but I doubt it'll be very pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatholicCid Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 As we move Priests around occasionally, so a Parish doesn't get too attached, perhaps we should also mandate that parishioners move to another Church every few years so they aren't attached to a single building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 [quote name='CatholicCid' post='1800503' date='Mar 8 2009, 01:22 PM']As we move Priests around occasionally, so a Parish doesn't get too attached, perhaps we should also mandate that parishioners move to another Church every few years so they aren't attached to a single building. [/quote] That is an interesting idea, but probably not very enforceable. I did belong to a church in Oklahoma that had a one time limit on people being elected to Parish Council. That kept a few dominant people from controlling things for years on end. I wonder if the people sleeping in this closed church were those, top of the heap people, and they just don't want to have to start on the bottom rung at a new parish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatholicCid Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Hypothetically, they should already have to be attending another Parish as well due to the Sunday obligation. If they haven't been, I think they might have more pressing issues then keeping a few buildings open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 [quote name='CatherineM' post='1800490' date='Mar 8 2009, 04:04 PM']Our parishes need to be merged here. Some already have, but we have to borrow priests from other countries and rent out rooms in the rectory to keep the heat on. It's silly to shoe string budgets for 3 churches within a mile of each other on the same street. Our church was the one designated to stay open because it is in the middle of the three, can hold the most people, and is handicap accessible where the other two are not. In this case it isn't parishioners holding the other two churches open, but elderly priests who refuse to retire or move. This is about perceived winners and losers. When one church was Ukrainian, one Portuguese, and one Irish, to close one over the other is like losing a National battle.[/quote] We went thru that - we had 2 territorial churches, AND one german, one polish, one ukranian, one slovak, some other kind of slovak, one italian, one greek, one byzantinian, and another italian: all within 3 miles. We now have 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamalove Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1800414' date='Mar 8 2009, 11:29 AM']But since we have birth-controlled ourselves out of a sustaining catholic population, and people flocked to the suburbs, what do ya expect???[/quote] And that's the problem in a nutshell. Spot-on observation cmom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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