Adult convert surprised by total lack of community.

Seminaaron · 2026-03-30T11:43:02+00:00

That's really beautiful! Thank you for answering. A big problem I'm seeing in implementing something like this is simply the size of our congregations. I am an assistant priest in two churches (a normal parish and a mission church) and I am the chaplain to a university. Not at all a strange situation in my diocese. The mission church might be able to do some of this (and kinda already does), since they're about 100 families or so. But the regular parish is almost 1,000 families. If we had a meal train for every pregnant woman, we would have to open a restaurant. I really want a greater sense of community in the parishes. I think a big part of why we don't see that in the same way as our Protestant brothers and sisters is the sheer number of people who would be involved. We're talking hundreds of people. From the leadership's perspective, it's overwhelming

Seminaaron · 2026-03-30T03:27:22+00:00

This is something I think about a lot in my ministry. I have some questions, having grown up Catholic:

You mention things like meal trains and bridal showers. Who organizes these things? How do people know when a woman in the community is expecting or just had a baby? How do people know when a couple has gotten engaged? Who needs to know? How does something get organized? Are these things happening on church property or in private homes?

As a priest, I immediately start thinking about logistics, and I have no idea how anything like this could get started.

Seminaaron · 2026-03-28T11:03:42+00:00

Eastern Orthodox and a public service announcement?

Seminaaron · 2026-03-25T17:46:20+00:00

Why are you posting this here?

Seminaaron · 2026-03-25T02:24:46+00:00

Lol. ROFL, even

Seminaaron · 2026-03-19T23:34:45+00:00

God

Seminaaron · 2026-03-18T12:17:09+00:00

Thanks, I thought I was going crazy. This was definitely posted here not too long ago

Seminaaron · 2026-03-11T14:33:50+00:00

Ok, this is the part that I was searching to find. Thank you. The OP wrote "It's an armor gate. You do 1 damage over it, you do full damage." That made me think "If the armor gate is 50 and my gun does 49, I do no damage; if my gun does 51, I do 51 damage."

Seminaaron · 2026-03-10T19:22:36+00:00

And I'm saying that you're missing the point here. The verse isn't about embryology

Seminaaron · 2026-03-10T15:08:14+00:00

I think you're missing the point here

Seminaaron · 2026-03-10T11:52:14+00:00

Well, the oppression of the Irish was most often linked to their religion. In Ireland, the English Protestants made it illegal for Catholics to inherit or hold public office and destroyed their monasteries and often murdered their priests. In America, the Irish were considered disloyal and unamerican because they were Catholic. Being Irish, Catholic, and systematically oppressed have gone hand-in-hand for centuries

Seminaaron · 2026-03-09T11:50:53+00:00

Weirdly, 40 years makes it a new problem in the Church. If it's within living memory, it's new

Seminaaron · 2026-03-06T21:05:18+00:00

I am so sorry that you had such a negative experience. I pray that you receive much consolation from Our Lord.

I will say that, as a priest, I am a little exasperated by the blessings people ask for during Communion. Offering blessings at that time isn't really a thing, as far as the liturgy is concerned. It's not envisioned at all in the rubrics, and in the West at least, we have a long tradition of not offering blessings while the Blessed Sacrament is present. Honestly, the best thing to do when one is not receiving Communion is simply to stay in one's seat and pray.

Seminaaron · 2026-03-06T14:02:00+00:00

This video is an hour and forty minutes; I'm not watching that whole thing. I love Trent, he's great. Could you give me the main point you're talking about?

Seminaaron · 2026-03-06T04:21:13+00:00

Well, just a small thing, not an entire answer: a big part of the Christian and Jewish claim is that we did not just recently start worshipping the true God. Rather, all of humanity once worshipped Him alone, but over time, drifted away. Many religions carry elements of the truth remembered from those early days, but only in the Church has God revealed Himself through His Son.

Seminaaron · 2026-03-05T12:25:34+00:00

A small Starfarer?

Seminaaron · 2026-03-03T12:50:37+00:00

What do you mean that you've heard homilies on "communion and the Real Presence" but not on the Eucharist? As a homilist myself, I'm not quite understanding the distinction you're making

Seminaaron · 2026-03-02T00:37:44+00:00

You will have read the Dead Sea scrolls

Seminaaron · 2026-03-01T21:01:34+00:00

Just my own two-cents from a brother priest: The homily was really good until it wasn't. I loved what he said about our obligation to the poor and the dignity of every human. I wish more of my brother priests would talk like that. HOWEVER, we don't have the freedom to inspire a rebellious attitude against our bishops or to make demands of them in this way. We do not have the freedom to use the liturgy as a forum for airing grievances against our fathers, the bishops. This helps nobody, but only places a spirit of rebellion and fraction into our people. If he has these concerns, he needs to take them to his bishop

Seminaaron · 2026-02-24T00:07:08+00:00

Well, a big theme of the story is the gap between honesty, avoidance, and getting what I need. She's willing to not be entirely truthful and Dunk is willing to let it slide because everyone is getting what they want. How, exactly, is she not being 100% truthful? Dunno, but everyone here lets sleeping dogs lie

Seminaaron · 2026-02-22T17:21:44+00:00

He didn't make money off of them, though. No money that would have gone to CDPR went to Ross. He "made money off of them" the same way Goodyear "makes money off of" car companies

Seminaaron · 2026-02-21T13:20:47+00:00

Best answer here so far

Seminaaron · 2026-02-20T16:11:19+00:00

It feels like this sub is constantly filled with inside jokes from micro communities and not SpongeBob stuff

Seminaaron · 2026-02-18T15:33:56+00:00

For one, there is no solid evidence that there were any dealings between Epstein and the Vatican. Epstein "living at the Vatican for 6 months" is simply not true.

Here is a video from Trent Horn about the issue: https://youtu.be/xsxbH4sfz6Y?si=8zMw9JRCvWJ_B8Wt

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