Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
The seasons of Lent and Easter provide us with many opportunities to practice our faith in publicly visible ways. Many of us enjoy pious traditions of wearing ash crosses on our foreheads, reenacted Stations of the Cross, outdoor living rosaries, Palm Sunday processions, Good Friday veneration of the cross, and Easter Sunday festivities.
I had a very disturbing conversation about a year ago. A person told me that they liked this parish. They liked the windows and the artwork. They liked the preaching and the music. But they were not going to stay at this parish, and they told me the reason. The person said to me, “You just have too many Mexicans.”