My mom found this church in Alexandria that runs a coffee shop on Sundays + during the week and has the Ignatius study Bible in every pew

Wait; this is run by a wonderful Pastor.

I wish people interacted as much with my art posts as they do with my throw away posts. 😅😂

Brother, I’ve had one throw away post blow up and I had to turn off notifications lol.

Why are daily masses near me at 9am? How is anyone who works a normal job supposed to go? Why is first Friday confession at 930am? Am I crazy or is this not setting up the faithful for failure?

Where I would sometimes help out while on vacation, it was to accommodate the mothers of school children who would be able to send off their kids to the various programs, then attend Mass, and it also worked for the retirees.

I don’t think having daily mass at 9 is a bad thing at all for that reason. My issue is that my current parish has three priests and only offers it at 9am and barely has confession but once a week on Saturday from 2-3. Completely foreign to me compared to my old diocese.

RT @archdpdx: Our Office of Divine Worship explains why the faithful should refrain from extending their hands during the Our Father at Mas…

There are 6:30 am masses.

I’m glad you have those mass times near you.

Amazingly Julia is the least performative female creator. I think these tears are genuine.

Yeah, because they’re “artwork” she’s showing is actually damaging to the soul and drives women to tears and men to anger.

It's for the retired boomers that's why. Sorry young man. You're put last in your local parish.

I think that’s because they’re the ones who’ve asked, not because the parishes intentionally forget to consider us. I think it’s as others have pointed out, the chicken and the egg.

Alphonse Ligouri ate a scroll containing praises to the Immaculate Conception because he thought it would cure his tummyache.

I’m doing this tomorrow.

I’m sorry you don’t live where I do. Our priest had daily mass at 5:30pm and 7am for those that work. Confessions from 4-7 pm mid week for those that work.

What a blessing you have, cherish it well!

Some people work other schedules. Lots of people are actually retired ( like me ).

Retired people (like you) can also attend a 7am daily mass.

Who said your job was more important than God for one? When did God tell you, you were supposed to have extra mana for the morrow?

Where did I say my job was more important than God? The second part is nonsensical ramblings.

Are you sure there are none earlier? We have several 8 AM and even one at 7AM.

I’m going to speak with the pastor of my parish. He’s newly appointed as of a few months ago and seems like the kind of Priest to be open to recommendations for change.

If all the weekday Masses where you live are at the same time, talk to the pastors to see if one of them can shift things for the early crowd or offer a noon or evening option.

I will be, I’m just kind of shocked honestly. I’m used to the diocese of Arlington which has mass times for everyone every day. So the diocese of Orlando is almost a culture shock.

It's a good thing you can confess to Christ at anytime

I hope his substack does better than his X because I can't imagine only getting 9 likes in 5 hours lol

Lol it's terrible, isn't it?

It’s always the throw away posts too huh.

😂

I regret having a post blow up. My phone won’t stop going off. How do you and @Catholicizm1 deal with it lol.

Confession should be available all day. And daily mass should be after folks get off work so like 5-6pm

I’m a start your day with it kind of guy.

Have you communicated this issue directly with the pastor? Nothing wrong with venting on X, but I doubt he’s lurking here.

I will be speaking to him about this. He’s new as of a few months ago and I was allowing him some time to see if he implemented some changes before I addressed some issues that make things challenging for working adults to access the sacraments.

You aren’t crazy.

I don’t want people to think I’m saying it’s intentional poor shepherding. I really just think my current diocese has had a bad case of complacency and lack of understanding young adults.

Back in the day, our parish had 600, 700, & 800am Masses. Of course, we had 4 priests and a plethora of altar boys.

My current parish has three priests, two deacons, and a plethora of altar boys. I just don’t think the Pastor realizes that many working adults would also attend daily mass if it was better scheduled.