Liturgical
Committee
It would be much appreciated if someone could explain to me in simple terms, the exact purpose of a Liturgical Committee. As many of you know, our church has just started one of these aberrations, designed, as far as I can see, to waste time and accomplish nothing of real importance.
After each committee meeting, my hubby and I are riled up and determined to quit. Finally Harold said, “Listen, if we keep going because we think we’re going to make any changes, we’ll be driven insane. How about we go just to yank some chains?” Now that sort of pot stirring is right up my Italian alley.
Last night was to be our third meeting. We dragged our tired bodies up to church and not one other committee member bothered to show up or even phone in an excuse. You think there may be a message here?
The whole concept has made me excruciatingly uncomfortable from the get go. And I think I’ve figured out why. I am the laity. Everyone else on the committee is the laity. It is not our job to instruct or recommend how the liturgy is to be conducted. I have spent hundreds of hours studying every document relating to liturgy, plus dabbled a bit in Canon Law, to be competent enough to do something I’m not supposed to do.
It would be much appreciated if someone could explain to me in simple terms, the exact purpose of a Liturgical Committee. As many of you know, our church has just started one of these aberrations, designed, as far as I can see, to waste time and accomplish nothing of real importance.
After each committee meeting, my hubby and I are riled up and determined to quit. Finally Harold said, “Listen, if we keep going because we think we’re going to make any changes, we’ll be driven insane. How about we go just to yank some chains?” Now that sort of pot stirring is right up my Italian alley.
Last night was to be our third meeting. We dragged our tired bodies up to church and not one other committee member bothered to show up or even phone in an excuse. You think there may be a message here?
The whole concept has made me excruciatingly uncomfortable from the get go. And I think I’ve figured out why. I am the laity. Everyone else on the committee is the laity. It is not our job to instruct or recommend how the liturgy is to be conducted. I have spent hundreds of hours studying every document relating to liturgy, plus dabbled a bit in Canon Law, to be competent enough to do something I’m not supposed to do.
Except for the one mad moment when I rebuked Bishop Wuerl for allowing the less than stellar Papal Mass in Washington, DC., I have always refrained from criticizing priests and bishops, and I don’t plan on starting now. I just want them to do their jobs and allow me to be the laity. Fair enough?
