Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Thursday, April 28, 2011

It's a good thing

in the place he's recommending it.

Bishop Paprocki authorizes St. Michael Prayer after Masses

After the Masses, and not part of the Mass.

Heh. It puts me in mind of the Rosary that is said in so many parishes either before or after weekday Mass. When the practice started it started with the Rosary. Then the Fatima prayer is added, which is common. Then along with the 'Hail Holy Queen' and another Marian prayer at the end, they added the Prayer to St. Michael. Then they added the Divine Mercy Chaplet. After that they added the Angelus. This is my experience at two parishes in the city. Pretty soon people who simply want to pray the Rosary will have to come two hours early for Mass in order to get it all in.

(As far as the website itself is concerned, I'm kind of creeped out by a young priest (born in 1978) who keeps talking about himself in the third person and calls himself 'The Reverend Father'. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but if I'm not mistaken I sense an upwardly mobile young man there...)



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