Boston, United States
5 Park St Pl
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+1 6177424460
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We miss our church. It's very inclusive and a loving and safe atmosphere. We I've had the best staff and the best priest in the city. Activities that include for families and children are amazing and the music is absolutely awesome.
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Open welcoming Catholic community. LGBT friendly
They changed parts of the Eucharistic prayers to exclude the pronouns he/him in reference to God the Father at the Sunday vigil, among other slightly less severe liturgical abuses. Went here for a required marriage preparation retreat that lacked any clear catholic instruction or support of the church, save a pre-recorded NFP video from another diocese that was even then lack - luster at best. Left feeling very discouraged, isolated, and even mocked; the latter in part being because of the disgusted glares I received from kneeling at mass and veiling at mass - both of which I did very simply and quietly.
Lovely, very welcoming community. Attended Easter services with the kids, and can see why they travel so far (by train) weekly to attend mass.
I attended the Paulist Center's Marriage prep retreat and it was the least welcoming, least helpful, and least Catholic program I have ever attended under the auspices of the Catholic Church. The speakers at the retreat gave generic, secular advice and avoided providing any kind of advice on Catholic living. The speakers were also dismissive of the teaching of the Church, preferring instead to tell people to do whatever made them feel good. The Mass that we were required to attend was the worst I have ever seen, to the point where I had to consult another priest to ensure that the Priest's changes to the Mass had not rendered it invalid. Several prayers were changed to be gender-neutral, a practice condemned by the church and prohibited in the General Instruction for the Roman Missal. Many of the parishioners, including most of the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, spent much of the Mass glaring at my fiancee for veiling and at the two of us for kneeling during the Liturgy of the Eucharist, which is the reverential posture prescribed by the GIRM and the traditions of the church. During the Eucharist many of those same ministers held on to the Precious Body so they could consume it simultaneously, a practice which contradicts the requirement for immediate consumption. I cannot in good conscience recommend the Paulist Center to anyone, Catholic or non-Catholic, and I fear for the souls of the priests permitting such laxity and for the congregation following them.
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