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What is your favorite part about your parish, if you attend church?

Or your social group, if not!

Personally I love that I go to a Greek church and they all kiss each other on the cheek. I love the physical warmth there.

…Thé religion.

I don’t post about it to the motte, because this is an argument forum, and I would flame people replying to my posts with blasphemy. But I am religious for the religion. Having a natural fertility bubble is nice, Jesus is better.

kids everywhere. Had a friend visit from out of town today and he remarked how he had never seen this many young families in a Catholic church.

Like @FiveHourMarathon, my church is the one I grew up in and my children go to school in the same Catholic school attached to it. It’s very beautiful to really feel such a circle of life sense to the place

Yeah that’s a beautiful thing. I hope to give that to my future kids.

I like that it's active. We reach out to the wider community regularly. I live in a transient are, near many military installations do we have a healthy amount of turnover over the years but it's about Dunbar sized with the long time members.

This may sound shallow, but I value most that my church is mine. I was baptized there, took first communion. I disliked the architecture as too modern when I was young, now I admire it as an artifact of its time and fight to preserve it from those who want to make it more modern.

I like our pastor a lot. He's a young-ish (in his 30s) guy from Brazil, who really strives to care for all the people of our parish. He also doesn't make any pretensions to holiness - I've heard him talk at various points about the sins he has struggled with at times, and how if you were to talk to any of his friends from Brazil they would say it's a miracle that he joined the priesthood. He's the model of what a priest should be like imo, and I'm really grateful we have him.

My group of friends is very proactive an intentional about socialising. We all take turns to arrange/host get-togethers. Nobody is doing all the work.

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