How do you define your parish? Do you feel you belong and welcomed? I have had a few experience of being welcomed and at home in one parish, and the feeling of alienation in another. My husband's nature of work made us move around almost half of the United States. And in each state we will find a parish that we immediately love or feel un-welcomed. But what keeps us going is not the physical feeling of belonging to the church, but being one in body with Christ during the mass. It doesn't really matter if they don't shake our hands for the sign of peace. As long as we have peace in our hearts.
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