{"id":30178,"date":"2015-05-20T08:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T13:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=30178"},"modified":"2016-11-10T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T05:12:21","slug":"rituals-for-catholics-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/20\/rituals-for-catholics-coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rituals for Catholics Coming Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does your parish do when Catholics who have left the church behind seek to return home? What ritual expressions, if any, do you give to this return? Are there any resources available for these journeys?<br \/>\nAn Austrian friend e-mailed me a recently asking whether it was true that in the U.S. some catholic parishes offer complete \u201ccoming home\u201d-programs, modeled to some degree on ancient rituals of the public, ecclesial reconciliation of sinners. \u00a0These programs supposedly end with an open reconciliation of those returning home to the church.<br \/>\nI have never experienced this in over thirty years of living here, but am curious whether such very developed, ritualized ways of coming home to Mother Church are indeed practiced anywhere? In my parish, two people who sought to \u201ccome home\u201d in the last two years did so mainly through a long sacramental confession\/conversation (enabling what the French call a <em>revision de vie<\/em>) that opened the door to rejoining the life of the church, Sunday Mass included. \u00a0Another woman, who wanted to take a more visible, public stance with regard to her &#8220;home-coming,&#8221; reconfirmed her baptismal vows in a Sunday Mass, spoke briefly before the congregation about her return home, and then went to communion with us at that Mass.<\/p>\n<p>What other practices do you know of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does your parish do when Catholics who have left the church behind seek to return home? What ritual expressions, if any, do you give to this return? Are there any resources available for these journeys? 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