While attendance appeared scant at St Augustine's at least there were services to attend, other than an Easter Vigil. Apparently Our Lady of Grace, Covina had the latter, but nothing Thursday, Friday, or Easter Sunday morning. Oh, I see Fr Baaten celebrated the Easter Vigil at Blessed John's. Who was at Covina?Nevertheless, the last we heard, Our Lady of Grace was trying to raise $1.5 million to buy a building. If nobody shows up for one of the busiest Sundays of the year, I've got to say good luck.
I can't avoid thinking this is context for the garden party hopeful big-donor schmooze at Blessed John's June 1.
My phytoplankton friend from last week has reassured me that he only seems angry in e-mails, but he isn't angry. Nevertheless, he's quick to reprove me for assuming he goes to mass at an ordinariate parish, when in fact he actually said in his e-mails that although he goes to confession with OCSP priests, he doesn't go to mass at their parishes. Now, clearly it's dangerous to assume when dealing with not-angry self-identified phytoplanktons, I nevertheless have to ask what part of the country has multiple ordinariate priests in or near a single diocese, and a big candidate would be Southern California.
So, do phytoplanktons who only go to confession at a particular parish, but not mass, ever donate money there? Sounds like even a $5 bill sent anonymously in the mail would help some of these groups out.
