{"id":10598,"date":"2011-07-20T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=10598"},"modified":"2011-07-23T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T21:25:03","slug":"supersizing-parishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/20\/supersizing-parishes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Supersizing&#8221; Parishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergingmodels.org\/article.cfm?id=75\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from Georgetown University\u2019s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate shows some interesting, though perhaps unsurprising, data. Parishes in the U.S. are getting larger and fewer, with more attendance, collections and masses at each parish. <a href=\"http:\/\/nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/theyre-here-forget-whole-if-you-build.html\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> take on it raises the possibility that migration is causing the well-known parish closures in areas people are moving away <em>from<\/em>, but may not be causing enough parish<span style=\"font-style: normal\"> <em>openings<\/em> in areas they\u2019re moving <\/span><em>to<span style=\"font-style: normal\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><span style=\"font-style: normal\">One liturgical effect of this trend: more masses in each parish per weekend, averaging four. The ancient ideal of \u201cone liturgy at one altar in one day\u201d has long been a distant memory for Roman Catholics, but we seem to be moving away from the ideal, rather than moving toward it (I wonder if RCs would even buy into the ideal anyway, or any reasoning for it).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">The full report is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergingmodels.org\/doc\/Emerging%20Models%20Phase%20One%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parishes in the U.S. are getting larger and fewer, with more attendance, collections and masses at each parish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[234,1475,102],"class_list":["post-10598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demographics-and-sociology","tag-cara","tag-congregation-size","tag-mass-attendance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Supersizing&quot; 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