looking over the very large number of Holy Week pictures posted on Facebook by St Augustine of Canterbury, San Diego I see that Palm Sunday attracted twelve people and Easter Day somewhat fewer. Their first Triduum (they formerly shared space in a parish church which could not offer it for these services) was slightly curtailed as the Easter Vigil was cancelled and Fr Baaten assisted at BJHN, Irvine. All very odd.There are clearly more OCSP groups like this one that are neither thriving nor growing than those in the mold of SMV, OLA, or OLW.
"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. . . . It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews." -- Annie Dillard
Sunday, April 23, 2017
On The Other Hand,
I think it's potentially misleading to be too optimistic about the handful of OCSP parishes that are genuinely successful. My regular correspondent noted yesterday,