Gym Mass
This past Sunday my wife and I went to a Roman Catholic "gym Mass" in Wilmette, IL, a suburb of Chicago. I'm a former Catholic. It was called a gym Mass because it was held in a gym (one of the 4 Sunday services). The service was really warm, and the music was great - similar to a megachurch with a few less instruments and no complicated AV equipment. The homily (= sermon) was about the Annunciation, and the priest's point was that when the angel appeared to Mary, at first she questioned, but ultimately she accepted. We were wondering if the priest knew UUs were in the audience. If I didn't have to believe that Jesus was God, and didn't have to believe that the priest actually turned bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ and didn't have to believe a lot of the other things that Catholics have to accept through faith, it would be a really nice service to go to. If we didn't live in the Boston area.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 7:58 AM
2 Comments:
My experience as a non Catholic regularly attending Catholic services was the Priest didn't have a problem at all.
I'm not sure they would really care either. One of the problems was the Priests so over burden they didn't have much interest.
I am sure that if you shop around a bit that you could find some very nice Roman Catholic services to go to in the Boston area. . .
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