A Treasure To Be Shared

AI generated image. Prompt: Female minister dancing on altar with incense. The Sign of Peace becomes the Dance of Peace. The tabernacle is not anywhere to be seen. There's no business like show business like no business I know. Everything about it is appealing, everything the pastor will allow. Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow. Blessings of couples in irregular unions doesn't even come close to describing the oddities going on. The altar doubles as a billiard table that is used during meetings of the Knights of Columbus . Unsanctioned modifications to the Mass include they/them pronouns for God and the saints. The statues of Mary and Joseph have been replaced with Murray and Joseph. Traditional liturgical colors have been replaced with an alphabet soup of washed-out tints carefully selected by the Parish Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Council. The favoured incense is Social Justice Blend... for "High" Mass. Votive and al...

Mickey Sean Winters [ 3 minute read ] Hey Doris, how is it that you always manage to arrive at the beginning of the Gospel, crochet your way through the homily until the Lamb of God, and then vanish right after Communion? Is there some kind of dispensation I don't know about? Mickey, I guess you'll be adding one more item to your confession today, eh? That of cutting in line, aka elbowing one's way in, aka jumping the queue. Have you enrolled your daughter in catechism class? What is catechism?! That's a program to help you mentor your child in the Faith and provides support for your child to help educate her allegedly Catholic parents. Are you new here at Saint Gregory's? You're a regular? It's just that you seem so unfamiliar with the prayers and responses. Ohhh,... you were speaking in tongues. Maybe try sticking to the script. Little Mickey really seems to enjoy causing a commotion during the consecration. That must be frustrating for you and your husban...

Procession to High Altar, Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish The Parish of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Esquimalt, BC, is host to four communities worshiping according to three forms of the Mass. Though there are clear and zealous preferences among parishioners for one of the three liturgical forms, parishioners navigate the busy times - high holy days - with a shared sense of accommodation and respect. Of course, this past Lent and Holy Week didn't present any management challenges given that there were no public Masses which would have required adaptation to avoid intersecting or overlapping liturgies. In past years, however, liturgical prescriptions have been observed in a way where each liturgical tradition finds expression. Priests and people have found ways to enact liturgies according to a schedule that serves each community and the common good. N.B. - Dear non-Catholics reading this post, you are invited to embrace (or at least acknowledge) the Catholic understanding th...

Saint John Henry Newman, formerly Blessed John Henry Newman, a community of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, now has a new website: http://www.victoriaordinariate.com Do visit! Saint John Henry Newman, a quasi-parish, worships at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, 849 Old Esquimalt Road, Victoria, BC.