"Anglo parishioners at Oklahoma church vent frustrations to bishop"
By Marilyn Duck
Catholic News Service
| Tulsa, OK | July 25, 2006
Many of the English-speaking parishioners
–some of whom were founding members of the 55-year-old parish in Tulsa
–said they have felt "a sense of disruption" since Father Tim Davison arrived as pastor two and a half years ago and intensified efforts to reach out to the growing Hispanic community within the
parish..... As a result, some Anglo parishioners feel unappreciated and unloved, they told Bishop Slattery.......Their discontent boiled over this spring when Bishop Slattery came to confirm young people from Sts. Peter and Paul and St. Thomas More parishes and celebrated the Mass mostly in Spanish. Some people walked out, and the family of at least one confirmand left the parish over the
incident.
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An early, windy,
Damp, wet morn,
October’s leaves
Were trying
To float between
The Church’s doors
And pray
While they were dying.
In House of Gold,
Where death births life,
Disintegrating
Strife,
And precious souls,
With different goals,
Knew, loved and
Served for life.
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But in the nave
The people rave,
Once souls as
Smooth as satin,
Complain for rights
In their own tongue
When, once, all rites
Were Latin.
But now they clamber
Make a din–
Confused sounds.
Scrape and scrabble.
While up above
The gargoyle love,
Satan’s laugh at his
Power of babble!
Long-Skirts
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