Author Topic: St. Marys KS -- Catholic Disneyland or good thing? (Read 33478 times)

OHCA · « **Reply #20 on:** November 15, 2010, 11:06:12 PM »

Quote from: MyrnaM

I totally agree Amy, and I don't thank God enough for my blessings, that He has made it possible for us to get to the Mount. It wasn't for the Mount exactly that I wanted to be here, I only lived a few miles from the Church in Newhall.

I always felt that Spokane was a blessed place to live in general, something about it, and still feel that way stronger than ever now. Especially with the chastisement almost here. Not that I will survive, that doesn't matter at my age, I already lived my life. I hope to at least be buried in the Catholic cemetary here at the Mount also.

"At your age . . ."

Your pace of life with 3 children in school and such sounds like where those sayings come from like "60 is the new 40!" :geezer:

I had my dream job and backed out of it. This wasn't the only reason I backed out, but having to relocate away from the best parish I've ever even so much as visited and doubtulness about the availability of the TLM certainly factored into my decision to let it go.

I don't think wanting to be around other Catholics necessarily bespeaks a weakness about a person. The reality of where I live is that Catholic youth have an exceedingly difficult time finding other Catholics for courting and marriage. In most cases, it simply doesn't happen.

I find the concept of a St. Mary's enticing, but my family, Catholic on both sides, has been down here a century and a half, and longer on the other side. If ever there's anything to be said for staying where the Lord put you, as Myrna alluded to, then I guess that's what I'm doing.

Besides, somebody needs to be around to heckle backwoods protties about my Bible being older than their church, tell them their "profound" discussions about whether Mary had an umbilical cord are pointless, etc.

Emerentiana · « **Reply #21 on:** November 16, 2010, 12:43:31 AM »

Quote from: MyrnaM

I totally agree Amy, and I don't thank God enough for my blessings, that He has made it possible for us to get to the Mount. It wasn't for the Mount exactly that I wanted to be here, I only lived a few miles from the Church in Newhall.

I always felt that Spokane was a blessed place to live in general, something about it, and still feel that way stronger than ever now. Especially with the chastisement almost here. Not that I will survive, that doesn't matter at my age, I already lived my life. I hope to at least be buried in the Catholic cemetary here at the Mount also.

I raised all of my children in Southern Calif. For about 15 years, each summer I would go on a vacation with them to the Spokane area. I even hired a lady to drive with me to help with the small ones.
For many years we rented a cabin on one of the area lakes. When the younger ones were small, I rented a house for a month or so.
I took them to mass and got together with my friends and their kids. My children developed friendships that have lasted until now.
In 1991, I moved to Spokane and bought 5 acres. My second son moved in with me in 1992 right after graduation from high school.
I put a manufactured home on the property in 1995.
In 2001 he was ready to get married. I could not take care of such a large property by myself. I sold the property and moved to Montana to be by my 4 oldest children who lived there.
I really miss the Catholic community in Spokane, and daily mass.
The years were wonderful! Good memories!
If anyone has a real opportunity to move near a large mass center, it can be a wonderful experience.
However, in these times I would say that it would be very difficult or almost impossible financially to do so.

Gods will be done in this matter!

clare · « **Reply #22 on:** November 16, 2010, 06:06:05 AM »

Quote from: Matthew

Also, how can you home school your children if both parents have to work because of dire poverty?

Why homeschool if you've moved to a trad Catholic community with a trad Catholic school?

MrsZ · « **Reply #23 on:** November 16, 2010, 08:15:24 AM »

We live 3.5 hours away from an FSSP Parish. I've often lamented being stuck in "Novus-Ordo" land. We know no other "serious" Catholics. We live in a very small town and we're the only Catholics who homeschool(ed) their children. There's a heavy emphasis on New Age stuff here: Buddhism, Hippies and the town only survives by catering to tourists from even more liberal cities a few hours away.

Mom's and Dad's both work and send their kids' to the local school and are involved in all the sports activities. The Novus Ordo Parish isn't as bad as what I've heard about others. Our priest is, I believe, a fairly well-intentioned man who has been emphasizing more and more lately the significance of the Eucharist and regular Confession. But his main "group" of involved parishioners are older women who do the readings, participate in an awful "choir" and "folk group" and act as "Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharistic" and are Lectors. Most of the Altar Servers are girls ... etc.

My main concern these last few years, has been for the eventual meeting and marrying of spouses for our children because they're not going to meet any traditional Catholics here. Our county is sparsely populated and there are no traditional parishes here at all. Even N.O. Catholics are few and far between in these far flung semi-rural communities.

However, lately, I've been thinking that God has either willed or allowed us to be planted here for a reason. We can't sell our house and my H is very resistant to the idea of moving to another place "just" because it has a traditional Mass. I don't know the reason we're here .... but I realized that the only thing I can do now for my children is to hope and pray that something will happen to provide them with the opportunity to meet and marry serious traditional Catholic people, or maybe they aren't called to marry at all. I don't know.

I don't know how one can really be a traditional Catholic only attending the Novus Ordo .. but as much as it's possible, we are. My daughter and I are the only ones that wear a veil during Mass and wear dresses/skirts to every Mass. Our family only receives the Eucharist on the tongue, stays kneeling until the parishioners in the pew in front of us go to Communion, don't hold hands during the Our Father...etc.

Looking back over the years, I see God's hand in our lives in how we've grown in the Faith. Sometimes I wish I'd never heard of the Traditional Mass .. "ignorance is bliss..." But on the other hand, we wouldn't have known about a more reverent way of experiencing Christ in the Eucharist and growing in our prayer life and in the way we live.

So it appears God, as usual, knows what He's doing. We're just supposed to trust Him.

Matthew · « **Reply #24 on:** November 16, 2010, 08:20:03 AM »

Quote from: clare

Quote from: Matthew
Also, how can you home school your children if both parents have to work because of dire poverty?

Why homeschool if you've moved to a trad Catholic community with a trad Catholic school?

Good point, but I wasn't speaking of homeschooling in the shadow of St. Mary's academy.

I was getting deep into the topic of "why we have to worry about the world and material things sometimes". And how material things -- or lack thereof -- can have a solid impact on the spiritual and eternal.

It doesn't get much more grave than impacting your kids' souls. And if, through carelessness, a couple become financially strapped such that they have to both work to survive, they lose the freedom to do things like homeschool their children.

Money shouldn't be sought after for its own sake. But it's OK to want to secure a *stable source* of food, shelter, and a Catholic education for your children.

And I know people joke about "even if your house is paid off, you're still renting from the government" but NO, you're not. If your house is paid off you only have to pay property tax, which you could get *much* more easily than any kind of rent or mortgage payment.

That having been said, you don't want to make life too easy for your children (or yourselves) either, or the Faith *will* suffer. Hard work and a bit of privation are necessary for any Catholic life. Having a bit of land and having many children will give you *plenty* in the hard work category!

Matthew