Easter Mass was...bad. Catholics may wish not to read this.

[alexseanchai]

What 'Catholic' Means

You promised me I was welcome
That's what 'catholic' means
Universal
All-encompassing
Pertaining to all kinds of people
Then you told me I'm unwelcome
Do you know what 'bisexual' means?
Or 'woman'?
Or 'mercy killing'?
Because I would rather die
Than stay pregnant
Than marry a man I do not love
Because the woman I do love is denied me
Than live in incurable
Unendurable
Pain
I am supposed to be welcome
That's what 'catholic' means
But you took Easter Sunday
The year's most joyous day
For Christians
And you made it about hate
Hating the person who dare not stay pregnant
Hating the person who hurts too much to live
Hating the person who happens to love wrongly
When you say 'wrongly'
You're wrong
I'm not Christian anymore
This is why
I am supposed to be welcome!
That's what 'catholic' means!
Why am I upset?
You kicked me out long ago
Except you have no interest
In actually kicking me out
Saying I am Catholic no more
I asked you to
I got no response
I am supposed to be welcome!
That's what 'catholic' means!
You want me to be Catholic
You tell me I am not welcome
Make up your mind
I am not Catholic
Because I am not welcome!
'Catholic' isn't what 'catholic' means!


Of all the Sundays in the year, the one which is least meant to be a polemic on abortion and euthanasia and marriage equality (and how all the evidence points to the truth of the resurrection but one is incapable of believing that without a leap of faith) is Easter Sunday.

Guess what we got in the homily?

Comments

[tptigger]

Ugh. *hugs*

[alexseanchai]

*hugs*

[dragovianknight]

*hugs tight*

[alexseanchai]

*hugs*

[ysobel]

*hugs lots*

[alexseanchai]

*hugs*

[onyxlynx]

*hugs* Just...feh!

[alexseanchai]

*hugs*

[silveradept]

How horrible - exactly the wrong message to be promoting on that holiday. I'm sorry that the church couldn't live up to its professed name.

[alexseanchai]

Yeah. Easter and Christmas ought to be all about inclusion, if for no other reason than to make it more likely that holly-lily types will come back at other points in the year.

[silveradept]

No kidding. Although, the silver lining is that you got an accurate picture of what the Catholic Church is today...

[alexseanchai]

True.

[lliira]

My grandparents went to a socially liberal Baptist-Mennonite-Quaker hybrid church. We visited them every Christmas, and I loved going to the church on Christmas Eve. Until the last time, when for some reason only known to him, instead of giving a typical Christmas Eve sermon (very short and very cheerful), the pastor decided to go on a long anti-choice rant. I haven't been in a church since.

Besides the obvious moral issues, many pastors and priests seem to have forgotten that Christmas and Easter are prime selling times. You want to be as welcoming and kind and fun as possible, so that hopefully some of the Christmas and Easter only parishioners will return. You want to show your best face and the heart of your church -- that's what people expect at these times. They want to hear the story of Jesus, period. If the best face and heart of your church are bigotry, and not the love of Christ, you won't only drive people away from your church, you're likely to drive them away from Christianity altogether. Which is fine with me, but it's sort of sad that they haven't got clue one how to package a product that's so very easy to package.

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, basically. Sigh.

[grimsqueaker]

Ugh, yuck, what an appalling perversion & inversion of Easter. *hug*

[alexseanchai]

*hugs*

[embroiderama]

That is so messed up, I'm sorry. *hugs*

[alexseanchai]

*hugs*

[rikibeth]

How awful. I'm sorry.

[alexseanchai]

*hugs*

[myaibou]

Lovely. :P

[alexseanchai]

Sigh.