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Why are the Ordinariate and Mount Calvary Growing so Fast? Copy Link Ordinariate Growing So Fast Monday, August 12, 2024 at 10:03:10 am religion, ordinariate, archdiocese Matt Collins

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There is a great article by the National Catholic Register on the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, of which I am a member.  My parish, Mount Calvary Catholic Church, and our pastor, Fr. Albert Scharbach, are featured prominently in the article, along with some photos of liturgies at our parish.

When we started attending Mount Calvary about 11 years ago, there were about 20 people at Sunday Mass, and except for one younger couple with one small child, who had come into the church with the parish, Rose and I were pretty much the youngest people in the parish. Now, there are hundreds of people at Mass, and the median age of the parish is 12.  And we’re located in a bad neighborhood in downtown Baltimore.  What does this mean for the Archdiocese Baltimore as it closes 2/3 of its parishes in the city?

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In my opinion, they would do well to learn from Mount Calvary.  But I think the folks running the Archdiocese are too stuck in their happy-clappy ways to think outside the box in any way that involves looking back at our heritage. Fortunately, Archbishop Lori is the exception to that. He has been a great supporter of the Latin Mass at St. Alphonsus, which has experienced even greater growth since the FSSP took over the parish, and they’re in an even worse neighborhood about a mile away from Mount Calvary. And their median age is probably around 18.

What’s the definition of insanity?  And how does it apply here?

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