Our Voices

Our Church needs your voice! Join us in asking the Magisterium to grant us an Ordinary Sunday catechetical lectionary for use in every parish around the world. This initiative is in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, and will always be obedient to the Magisterium. Simply add your thoughts or comments on this page. Simple comment such as “I want to be taught”, or “I support this initiative” is totally acceptable. Please be sure to put down your name, parish, city, country for statistical analysis purpose. Be sure to pass this on and share it with others!


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Dianne Rzewnicki, Christ the King, High Point, NC, USA
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 14:49

Dear Holy Father,

You have already worked so many miracles in changing all kinds of people's attitudes and given them direction for thier lives.

Please approve "I Want to be Taught." Monsignor Reilly has done incredible work for the pro-life movement; here in the USA and in the world; yet the parishes are split between cafeteria Catholics and those who want to know the truth (and live it). We have a very difficult time getting our priests involved in the pro-life movement because they're too busy building buildings!

Please help our priests to speak what the people NEED to hear - the truth in today's culture. The USA is going down the drain, and so much that is coming out of sermons and otherwise is watered down because they don't want to lose the money parishioners bring in. The church isn't the building, it's the people. I worked as a lay missionary in Africa and we had Mass under trees in many villages.

We are spiritually dying in the USA; many are being lost. Please Holy Father, tell the priests to speak the truth that people need to hear (especially the young) about today's culture before more souls are lost to watered down sermons. Even the Catechism the children learn is watered down compared to what I was taught 40 years ago.

We need you!!!

Karen Rooney, ofs, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Winter Have, FL, USA
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 13:55

I am praying for your mission to be successful.
Peace & Love, Karen

Dugles Cherry, St. Mary of The Annunciation, New Albany, IN, USA
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 13:35

We need more!

David C. Diemer, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Raleigh, NC, United States
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 13:21

So many Catholics have no clue about the authentic teachings of the Church and unfortunately, our pastors are too afraid to make any waves to teach them. Consequently, the faith of Catholics in the United States has suffered tremendously such that since 1980, 85% of confirmed Catholics have left the Church before the age of 30 and not returned. If no one has noticed, the bulk of people in the pews today have white or mostly white hair. And _nothing_ has been done to address the consistent hemorrhaging of people leaving the Church for other Christian denominations where people practice and live their faith.

I've also noticed one thing personally. When I taught catechism from my own experiences and my own life, the young 8th grade men were mesmerized but when I taught them from the book, they were completely bored. And this very thing is happening in our own churches today. Very few priests speak from their own spiritual and practical experiences. Rather, they READ dry homilies that say a lot, apply to no one, and mean nothing. Worst of all, they are _taught_ to do this - as if this is preaching God's word!!

philip liquori, St. Augustine, North Branford, CT, United States
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 12:54

We wholeheartedly support this initiative.

Mrs. Ann E. Byrne, St.Columbanus. Loughlinstown., Co. Dublin, Ireland
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 12:30

I support this initiative. I think it's a great idea and will help priests to give a good meaningful homily. God bless.

RAY MOONEY, St. Mel, Flushing, NY, USA
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 11:51

Dear Monsignor Reilly,

I used to attend your prayer vigils when I worked for Chris Slattery. You are a wonderful priest and inspiration.

Therese McQuade, St. Peter Chanel, Deer Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 07:03

We have been studying the role of the laity lately in our Year of Faith study group and this goes hand in hand with the things we have been discussing, based on the passages in the Catechism; the evangelical role of the laity themselves, while the priest feeds the flock that we, the laity bring to church. Let´s bring the faith out of the churches and back into the world!

Sheila Hughes, St. Thomas the Apostle, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA
Tue, 06/11/2013 - 01:38

There is such a need for the faithful to truly know the faith and be taught it. We need to go back to the basics and it's a poor witness that so many Catholics not only don't know their faith but give such a poor example of the Catholic faith.

James Lynn, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Philadelphia, Pa, USA
Mon, 06/10/2013 - 23:54

I support this innitiative.

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