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JillD
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| Location: | Visalia, California USA |
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| First Name: | Jill | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | heathen, EvFree, Messianic, LC-MS, Catholic 2007 |
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Posted: Sun May 4th, 2008 02:08 am |
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I have a friend who has to go to Downey, CA, once a month to take care of her aging parents. Each time, she tries a new church for Mass. Every time, she comes back here with descriptions of churches which would never have led me to the Church if that's all that had been around! Churches with no crucifix, rock 'n roll Mass, ladies going up to receive holding their little dog and being given Communion. LA county, ie Los Angeles County, is a tad 'different' from our conservative Central Valley here.
So, do any of you So Cal folks know of a good parish that's not too far from southern LA county - Downey, in particular? She's a brand new Catholic and I'd love for her to find a place to worship when she's down there.
Thanks for the help!
Jill
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"Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men." Ps 140
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Steven Barrett
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| Joined: | Tue Nov 14th, 2006 |
| Location: | Hadley, Massachusetts USA |
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Posted: Sun May 4th, 2008 05:51 am |
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Jill,
No wonder Mel Gibson felt compelled to build his own private chapel! No doubt he'll go "Braveheart" if Cardinal Mahoney tries to shall we say, "incorporate" his chapel under his direct archdiocesan thumb. Given what I've seen coming out of LA, my God, New England looks like Vatican City!
I'd go Braveheart, too if anyone even gave thought to pulling the crucifixes, etc., hallmarks of a BIG C Catholic parish, out the door leaving it to look like a lot of sad-sack non-denominational churches (converted from storefronts, dead malls and bankrupt indoor tennis clubs.)
'Course, you only have to look at Cardinal Mahoney's "cathedral," nothing more than a burial vault; a fitting tribute to his legacy as "leader" of such huge and once very Catholic archdiocese in more than just name. ANd to think he's still paying on that concrete mausoleum while also paying out for what some of his former priests did. I'd pay the suits off, close the new concrete box and use a more humbling edifice, then sell the box, and reinvest the proceeds into more crucifixes, etc. and instructions on how to conduct Masses the Old Fashioned Way: in Latin and English or Latin and Spanish, whatever, BUT LATIN as the main lingua franca. That way even the Kumbaya Katholics can't mess things up anymore than they have already.
No wonder Mel built his own chapel. FREEEEEEDOOOMMMMMMM!!!!
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wmschrader
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| Location: | Fort Myers, Florida USA |
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Posted: Sun May 4th, 2008 12:29 pm |
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| You might have your friend check out Saint Domonic Savio Parish in nearby Bellflower: http://saintdominicsavio.org/
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JillD
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| Location: | Visalia, California USA |
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Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 02:23 pm |
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wmschrader wrote: You might have your friend check out Saint Domonic Savio Parish in nearby Bellflower: http://saintdominicsavio.org/
She's been to this one and says it's the best in the area but that that is saying NOTHING. It's still got "issues." The music, the bizarre modern crucifix. Still, it is the one she goes to as the priest is a good homilist.
And Steven, you are so right. Fr. Mahoney has made LA County a very difficult, if not impossible, place to find traditional orthodox Catholicism.
The dearth of almost any sort of good suggestion tells a lot, doesn't it?
Jill
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"I praise you, for I am wondrously made. Wonderful are our works! My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret." Ps 139
"Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men." Ps 140
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