A Protestant Visits a Catholic Church in the Round (and Stumbles Upon a Catholic Funeral) 

Amen. You are part of the true apostolic church.

Welcome home

Congrats

We rejoice!! 🙏🏼❤️

Welcome home!

Welcome home!❤️🙏✝️

What a wonderful Saint you choose. She's one of His favorites.

@ThroinFrostaxe Why did you decide to become Catholic rather than remain a Baptist?

Welcome home. Wishes from India

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Welcome home.

I entered the church 2 years ago this Pentecost

That's awesome, will pray for you in the next chapter of your life :)

What about what st mark preached he preached coptic orthodox if we follow his gospel and his work for christ why don't we follow St mark ?

@@elijahhinderry7116 The Coptic Orthodox Christians are lovely brothers and sisters in Christ. We should love one another. However, I'm not sure what this has to do with a Church designed in the round.

Not a catholic but also a Greenville resident and glad to hear my catholic brothers are doing well.

@@joshuabradford65 great to run into my fellow Greenville-ians! If you ever get the chance to swing by Prince of Peace in Taylors I highly recommend attending the Noon Latin Mass at least once for the experience.

@@calebsmith5102 maybe I will! Taylor’s is my stomping grounds!

I just moved to Pendleton myself and my son is going to St. Joseph’s. Downtown had a great Catholic Church.

Ecclesiastical Dad joke.

What a hilarious line! LOL!

That is correct.

Really ? You can’t stay for the whole funeral . They kick you out unless your a member of their club

We don’t kick people out who aren’t Catholic. We welcome all. I believe the point he was making was that he had something else to do, so he didn’t stay. I love St. Terese of Lisseaux.

@@paul-davidalmond716 sorry you do. I left my last two catholic friends funerals by being told to leave it’s only Catholics for whatever is next

@@paul-davidalmond716 Show me a catholic diocese who mission is to follow Jesus and serve the least of us in community the adult citizens with special needs. They don’t exist . You will find Catholic helping none citizens with everything. So when I meet Jesus we will talk about other believer but not the Catholic Church. When I pray I hear God say serve my people not go to catholic mass

Intriguing

Fr. Brown in every comment section. 😋

Hey your the mexican Fr.!! Nice

He is risen!

Hello Father. Are they not still to a certain extent with relics being placed in the altar?

I invited Matt to Kansas to the largest traditional Latin Parish in the United States. I never heard from him. He would see something unbelievable, something he will not see at a novus ordo mass

@@brianbunel7687 I hope he responds to you because my first Latin Mass was one of the greatest, most otherworldly experiences of my life.

yes the idol worship is quite a sad show

@@bobsmith-qu2oq What? You're an idol worshipper?

@@brianbunel7687 SSPX?

same here

Same here

Same here ha!

Same

Convert here too

THANK YOU!!!

I agree! I love that there are four chapels as well. ❤

No worries, it's still Easter. We have 50 days of it! It ends at Pentecost, in June.

@@lyndavonkanel8603 Yes, that's right

Oh Yes it's round. I remember them building it. Being from Hurstville ,never had reason to visit unfortunately

I believe he did a video there a couple years back.

Come home to the one, holy, apostolic Church ❤️✝️🙏

Btw..once you were baptized, that’s it. No redo. So happy ur out of the JW..it’s a horrible thing.

Seems like your already basically in the Catholic church. I recommend go to confession, then start receiving holy communion again, and then ask about receiving the sacrament of confirmation. Thats just my opinion though.

You are already baptized there is only one baptism. You just need to know the faith. Follow along the Cathechism is a year podcast by Fr. Mike here in youtube…🙏🏻

You were baptized a Christian in a Catholic church. There is one baptism. You and your father would be welcomed back any time.

Very cool detail about your name. Is it connected with St. Theresa, or is your name just quite literally little flower?

@@MattWhitmanTMBH No connection. My last name literally means, Little Flower. A little trivia, for whatever it’s worth--LaGuardia Airport, is named after a former Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia. Thanks for connecting Matt. I’d like to support your work. How do I do that? Duh...I found it. I’m a bit slow. LOL

How have I never thought about that???? I speak some Italian (I worked on it for a long time, but I'm not very good), but when I've seen that name in the past I looked right past the word and just lumped it into the name category in my brain and didn't think about what it meant. I learned things today. Thank you.

And thanks for thinking about supporting too!

@@MattWhitmanTMBH I did via PayPal and sure hope that everyone on this thread supports you as well. GOD Bless You Matt.

The Pantheon in Rome is another round church, but it began its life as a Roman temple. You may have visited the Pantheon while in Rome. 🇮🇹

6:00 rewatch this sections - its not about specifically removing the rail its about separating the church's "holy part" and people. Everything is Holy.

The original poster is correct: no where in Vatican II did it say “destroy the communion rails, destroy the High Altar, place the Eucharist off to the side in an unimportant place, let lay people run intro the altar to play priest and use their unconsecrated hands to falsely administer the Holy Eucharist, let lay people receive communion in their hand without kneeling, etc etc.” With all due respect to the responder, that is an erroneous statement. The Altar IS a sacred place and should be treated as such. God has always ordained the Altar as a set apart sacred place. In the Old Testament, the Holy of Holies was where Gods presence appeared (the New Covenant fulfillment of this is the Real Presence of The Eucharist). The Holy of Holies was covered by a veil, and no one was allowed to enter except the High Priest, and even he would only enter once a year to offer the blood of Sacrifice and incense. The Sacrifice was offered by the Priest for himself and for the sins of the people. Well, Traditionally in Catholicism this is how we have always understood the Altar and the Mass. This understanding is preserved in Traditional Parishes (usually Latin Mass or Eastern Catholicism/Byzantine Rite). Lay people storming into the Sanctuary destroys this symbolism and downgrades the Altar from a Sacred Space of Sacrifice to God, to a normal place. It also diminishes the priesthood. In Eastern Catholicism, the icon wall is closed off during the consecration and lay people never go into the Sacred. This sort of reverence is important and must not be dismissed as something of “the past.” Up until modern times (which has coincided with widespread loss of faith), lay people did not presume to enter the Altar. Now, lay people, in a spirit of pride, storm into the sanctuary and impose roles unto themselves that have had disastrous effects on the Church’s Liturgy. The fundamental problem with the modern desire (influenced by feminism and other modern sensibilities) to have lay people storming the altar, administering the Eucharist, or having a girl version of altar boys is a spirit of pride and presumption. For some people of course, it is ignorance, but regardless… it is undeniable that the Altar has been desacralized by the Hasty Reforms made in the 60s and 70s. The Church has existed for thousands of years (and even longer when you consider the Church’s lineage is the Old Testament). Only since the 1960s/1970s has it become common for lay people to go up to the altar and treat it like a play thing without reverence. The results of this are clearly disastrous and have been documented in full. There must be a return to solemnity and reverence in the Mass as we must offer to God rightly ordered Worship. I say this with all due respect and no insult intended, but rather, I want to express how the Church has always understood the sacredness of the altar throughout its entire existence.

@@grant3287 Living in a specific period of time is OK to a point (because it is history and important to remember) but living on one specific tradition is too much importance in the past and not moving on (there are many points of tradition to learn from not just one small piece of history). I dont think God realllllly cares about an alter rail or not he is more concerned that you turn to Him (in whatever form that takes for you in the present stage of life). Don't YUCK someone else YUM because of your limited understanding (everyone is limited in understanding not a slam on you specifically)

The four chapels allow the aerial view of the church to actually be a cross shape, with the "circle" in the center.

And to you!

Little Flowers pastor, Father Herzog, offers a Latin mass at 9:15 on Sundays. Unfortunately the bishop has told him he must cease offering it on Pentecost Sunday. He was in tears relaying the news to the faithful.

@@tommygirl61 Oh no! I will pray for Fr.Herzog, he must be heartbroken 😓. Our Lady will protect our faithful priests. Thank you for your comment! The Mass of the Ages will prevail, God willing. 🙏🏽

I was wondering, why do Catholics use a lot of incense in their funerals?

There’s a quote believed to have been said by Queen Elizabeth I- “There is but one Jesus Christ, my lords, everything else is mere trifles.’ Pretty sure i either butcher or paraphrased but you get the idea.