Hi! I’ll start using this Hole properly soon, but let’s kick things into gear.
Do you volunteer time to Church-affiliated organizations or efforts? What’s your experience been like? I used to do administrative work for my old parish and that was necessary but not very fulfilling or time-consuming, and it’s past time I started giving back again so I am looking for insight into options here.
!catholics please consider joining this Hole!
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It took me a good 3 minutes to figure out how to follow this hole
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Penny, I bet your skin is golden too
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I'm a member of the Knights of Columbus so I volunteer at their events, mostly upkeep of the parish.
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Isn’t KoC for old people?
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It's a life insurance pyramid scheme.
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never looked into it, but i 100% believe it
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tehy always were old lol
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lol ive seen them at my congregation
ngl they look so extra lol
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carp is gay
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R-slurred horses are funny. The stretch their heads out over fence for carrot/apple then you give and with their head still stretched out they take chomp and drop rest where they can't reach and get upset while the non-r-slurred horses are all like what a fricking r-slur lmao
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I am a bishop ama
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I’m a lector and Eucharistic minister.
Sometimes when I can I help the sexton with the mowing of lawns around the parish property.
I wanted to sponsor some sort of youth orienteering program or adventuring thing but it’s kinda hard getting a hold of the archdiocese to sponsor it
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i'm not sure what ur looking for but i thought of this
idk how u is irl but friendly ushers/greeters always welcomed imo
phone skills? call up disabled/sick/shut in parishioners n give them comfort n attention mb accompany ur priest on home visit communions n ur rites n stuff if ur Church do that?
clean n dust ur Church manuel labor stuff
youth outreach
God Bless 🙏🏾
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We’re never short on ushers and that’s not really a sacrifice at all. The calling old people thing and cleaning and youth outreach all sound supremely unpleasant, and are thus promising. I’ll consider those if I see anything like that on offer for sure.
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that's sweet
there's an old person home near my church. they shuttle over every mass and i assume weekdays as well.
that's hit or miss honestly (they dont expect a priest to bring a +1)
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carp is there a cat on your screen too? is this like a rare bug
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also to answer your question, i have. i didn't do anything special, i served an hour of time after mass handing out food to other churchgoers and cleaning up whatever was leftover afterwards. that was years ago, nothing recent
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oh darn carp really made a catholics ping group wth
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what's being catholic like?
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That's a bit of a broad question
Are you actually curious or just s-wordposting?
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lol no, i'm curious. i grew up southern baptist and it sucked, would not recommend
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Oh! Well then!
That's a bit of a broad question lol. What are you looking for specifically, or a bit less generally?
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do people look at you funny on the street?
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lots of old lonely people, lots of passive aggressive people, lots of kids dragged into the mass who don't care for it and are bored
overall, nothing to write home about. the dramatized version of being catholic is existing is a sin and you should feel bad and devote as much time to the lord and savior. im not that religious tbh and experiences may vary. then again my name is gaslighter so maybe im lying or whatever gaslighters do haha
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Last time I did anything for the church (aside of giving money, which I actually haven't done in a long time), was standing vigil next to the tomb of Jesus as a scout. And, as you can imagine, that was more than a decade ago.
More recently (like half a decade) I almost promised to our parish priest to finance the church clock. But he said there is no need, it will be done. It's not done. I guess I didn't make a promise, so I don't have to bill that few hundred thousand it would probably cost.
But it's something I think about sometimes.
What I wanted to say is: no I'm not doing anything right now, and I haven't really done anything, even though I feel I should have.
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Yo Carp, for 5k I can setup Biblebot to respond to Bible references here too. Make it 15k and I'll figure out how to include the Apocrypha as well.
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