21 June, The 4th Sunday after Pentecost

Davenport, Holy Family: Low Mass, 11:00am. Confessions & Rosary before Mass. Holy Face devotion, Fellowship Meal afterwards.

Iowa City, St Patrick: Low Mass, 2:30pm. Rosary & Confessions before Mass.

Our Lord, St Peter, a great draught of fish and the divine commission. “From henceforth though shalt catch men”. Luke 5:10

A matter worth our discussing further: the widespread mentality, ‘But surely our parish must stand out from the rest and stay open because we’re s p e c i a l .’ That is, what metrics actually matter to bishops and their consultants:

(Read: if the Chaplaincy were to close tomorrow/ no longer be allowed to worship in a diocesan parish church… would you not go somewhere else?

Historic Trends from CARA at Georgetown U (click the image to expand)

Facts that Should matter to bishops and their consultants: How the fidelity, practice, giving and fertility of Trad Catholics differ from typical Novus Ordo attending Catholics:

The state of the question in a neighboring diocese:

More historical looks at the Crisis in the American Church (nb Euro Church stats are much worse)

James Green comments:

Lord, have mercy on us! :

https://cara.georgetown.edu/faqs

One important metric I think that should really matter ( and how many girls are in the Scola too)

Parish priests and parish altar boys- Blessed Sacrament Parish, Philadelphia in the 1940s