Thursday, February 25, 2010

Irish Priest Promises 15 Minute Mass During Lent

Irish Independent

By Tom Gilmore and Brian McDonald


Thursday February 25 2010

A PRIEST'S congregation has increased tenfold in a week -- thanks to a quickie Mass.

Despite the controversies which have rocked the church in recent years and the resulting fall-off in attendances at church services, Fr Michael Kenny has been packing them in at his Kilconly parish in Co Galway.

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3 comments:

o said...

If he skipped the Liturgy of the Eucharist and a couple other things, he could bring in THOUSANDS and even non-christians!

Make it even a drivethrough mass while you wait for your McDonald's meal?

Sounds to me like it was the 9am, not the homily - though the latter may indeed have been quite bad, who knows!

Anonymous said...

This is exactly the type of stuff we were told VII and the new Liturgy was needed in order to prevent. From there and back again I guess.

Tancred said...

Some people seem to be figuring out that many of the things identified as problems by some of the Council Fathers were really pretexts!