The young priest did a ‘brainstorming’ one day to help people return to church.
New York (02/03/2021 08:32, The joy Press) The nice initiative, by the American Fr. Carlos Limogi, for people to return to face-to-face mass, is already touring the entire globe.
Fr Limogi is vicar of the Church of the Assumption in the city of Peekskill, in Westchester County, New York. And as it happens in many places, unfortunately, thes people beginsn to resume his more or less normal life, but does not returnn to what he used to do in the Church, probably out of fear of the virus.
That is why Fr. Limogi appeared one day, shortly before Ash Wednesday, outside a grocery store, with a simple poster that read: “If you can come and do the shopping, then you can come to mass.” He posted the photo on his Instagram profile, and it is going viral.
Exponential increase in parishioners
The young priest says that the increase of parishioners in the church has been more than remarkable, ‘exponential’, and although he also attributes it to the beginning of Lent, he believes that it also has its good part of his ‘advertising campaign’.
Father warns that he never had “the intention of shaming or blaming people for coming to Mass, much less making people with health problems feel bad about not attending church.” The priest also cares about the health of the people.
“Rather, I wanted people to meditate on how God fits into their lives in these times, especially now that there is a sense of normalcy, compared to what we had for most of the past year. “
“I intended to make them think, ‘If I can do a lot of what I was doing now, shouldn’t my worship of God be given the same consideration?’
The priest thought of an initiative that would attract attention, that was novel and impressive, and the photo emerged. Viral. And effective.
With information from ChurchPop
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