I’m so disappointed in this church. I received my communion from this church and returned today for the first time since 2021 for a Wednesday night mass. It has become a highly politicized church. It has lost its path to enlightenment, spirituality, and Christ. The disappointment deepened today, as in 2021, when I visited it was to pray for my lost loved ones - my abuelos whom I had lost to Covid. Back then, the pastor spoke against Covid and called it a conspiracy, and said that people were not dying… mind you, that day the pastor spoke the names of my abuelos. The horror and hurt myself and my family felt is an understatement. Today, I gave it another chance. So I could peacefully pray while celebrating a passed loved ones birthday. I didn’t expect for the focus of part of the prayer to be over Donald Trump, nor did I expect to be listening to politics at this mass. This is propaganda. This is not what I learned during my communion all those years ago. I won’t be...
Read moreCame here for a baptism and it turned into everyone getting scolded multiple times over everyone speaking quietly amongst themselves. Most of the ones talking had small children with them so they can’t stay quiet for long with little kids around, but the pastor got upset and went into a whole monologue about how no one is fully devoted to the lord nowadays. Pastor simply needed to focus having a nice baptism for the families and not stopping to speak down to everyone for so long. The pastor was also very sarcastic from...
Read moreRhetorical service. Repeating what the pastor says. Felt like I was supposed to be a sheep. Pastor seemed a little fake and just not my kind of traditional church. I prefer a more upbeat, good band, everyone singing to the lord, celebrating God and all the blessings we have instead of chanting. Sorry... no go...
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