Luke Live
I did not know if 'Luke Live' was going to be something that I would be interested in. After watching Father Diluzio at mass on Sunday, I thought that it was probably worth going to. And I am very glad that I put some things 'on hold' to attend the mission this week. A breath of fresh air!
It is really hard to write about all the things that went through my mind last week as I attended the mission. I find myself wanting to wait to write until I "have a handle" on exactly what I got out of it. But, that would mean that I would never write about it, so I guess I will just ramble on a couple of points..........day by day?
IDEAS FROM SUNDAY
I wrote three things down when I came home from last Sunday's homily ala Father Diluzio: That a sacrament means the 'sacred manifested'; Unity and forgiveness are linked together; and that God wants us to embrace diversity-- diversity does not hinder community. I thought the description of a sacrament was great and I wanted to use it with the confirmation kids.
The second thought about unity and forgiveness was food for thought. 'Unity' has been the buzzword around these parts for quite a while now. And I think a roundtable discussion about what the word meant to the parishioners would have been time well spent. I have asked many a person these past couple of years to give me three criteria that would show that our parish would finally be "unified". What was the "Holy Grail" of unity that we were supposed to try and attain?
Really, I would welcome some ideas on this subject, because sometimes I think we spent so much time spinning our wheels trying to attain a unity that had no criteria. Did 'unity' initially mean closing all the buildings and building a new church? Did it mean combining all of our programs when the Bishop's office told a parishioner that it really wasn't necesary(in the spirit of the closings) to combine everything? Or did it simply mean an spirit of cooperation to embrace what was working in the parishes, and shore up what was weak?
I watched (ok, and participated in!!) some heated discussions about what was good for 'unity' . And most of the time came away shaking my head. I thought we were basically rather unified. What do you think?
posted by Karen @ 4:29 PM
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I went one night to hear Luke Live and I thought it was good. I would like to say that most people in the parish are unified. I think they want to pray, hear about God and help people.
I think that some people think that being unified means the people of the parish should smile and never say that they disagree with anything that the people in charge tell them, don't complain.
The dictionary says that complain means: to express grief,pain or discontent. or to make a formal accusation. What is so wrong about saying what you think about what might be a problem for a lot of people?? I think it shows that people care. Shouldn't people in charge care enough to try and listento what people say might be wrong? Wouldn't you want someone to tell you if they thought your car engine was 'making a funny noise'. Before it blew up? or quit running alltogether?
I think that the parish is unified that they want to know things about the parish. Is that wrong?
Maybe the criteria should be:
1. We never feel a need to mention the word unity.
2.Parishioners take part in guiding their own church.
3. The staff and parishioners come clean with each other, forgive each other for past hurts and move on to really strengthen the parish.
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