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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1787 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 23, 2025

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To address the object point, I think one reason right-identarians tend not to go to Church very much isn’t hypocrisy so much as the lack of the invisible infrastructure that gets most Catholics into church. When you have no Christian friends (nearby), no muscle memory from long practice and you’re not integrated into the social scene, church is largely a chore.

Lots of us are intellectual/aesthetic converts hoping for faith to come some day, rather than suddenly being seized by faith on the road to Damascus, and that makes weekly Mass difficult.

I like the first half of Mass very much - the readings and the sermons are full of intellectual meat to get my teeth into - but the second half is the same litany and prayers every single time followed by fifteen minutes of shuffling people about for the sake of a ceremony I’m not actually allowed to participate in. In theory I register the weight of it, but in practice doing it every week is interminable.

Your reaction to the above may well be a justified ‘get thee hence, Satan!’ but just giving the less appreciated side of the story. And any advice would be appreciated, of course.

I like the first half of Mass very much - the readings and the sermons are full of intellectual meat to get my teeth into - but the second half is the same litany and prayers every single time followed by fifteen minutes of shuffling people about for the sake of a ceremony I’m not actually allowed to participate in. In theory I register the weight of it, but in practice doing it every week is interminable.

Why haven't you gotten to first communion yet?

I never went through Confirmation (background is Christmas-only Church of England and my parents never brought it up, also I was atheist as a teenager). In Japan you could only do it in Japanese, and since I came back to the UK I've had other things on my mind and religion has mostly taken a back seat.

In our parish adult converts get first communion at Easter, education program starts in fall but you're smarter than the average bear so if you get in touch now you could probably Speedrun it by March.

You'll feel much more connected when you receive the sacraments.

I mean the question is ‘do you want to join the church or not?’. There’s not really an in between here; you can’t have it both ways.

If you want to join the church then you should get to know your fellow parishioners(I’m not familiar with the dynamics of parishes in the UK, but in the USA my recommendation would be a parish-associated men’s group that meets in evenings, they’re usually fairly normie tier based and have a decent representation of all ages over 21- not all retirees), read a gospel all the way through, and have a routine of personal prayer while you work on weekly attendance. You’ll find it easier. If you don’t, then I’m not sure why you’re bothering?

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