Our most packed day is Good Friday for some reason. And this year, the lives for confession have been so long before and after Mass that the choir members are going to have to go on Friday at noon in order to be sure to be through before rehearsal starts. And I’d like to meet the priests that rehearse the Triduum. From where I usually am, we fly by the seat of our pants while the text messages go back and forth: “We’re ready, you can start the Ecce Sacerdos now.” “I don’t see mitres.” “He’s coming.” “I can’t see mitres.” And with a new archbishop who does things at the velocity of Speedy Gonzalez this is going to be interesting.
LOl! Texting during Mass!
The two signs of a good Church are the length of lines at the Confessional and the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
We had eight priests hearing confessions in all our churches during the Easter Penance services. Our church was first and we had over 100 in the line. It’s been over 250, though, when we are the last church since they rotate the order!
So congratulate yourselves and pass the word! You have a great parish and Archbishop.