[Magdalen] Education.

[Jay Weigel]

When I was a kid and went to the Catholic church with my friend Sarah Jane,
I saw people putting money into plates at the door as they went into the
nave. I thought they were paying to get in! She had to explain to me that
THAT was how they took up their offering. I thought it was weird.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
wrote:

> No. I _think_ it's more about not putting people on the spot, especially
> if they may have their donations paid electronically. It is unobtrusive.
> There is the visual reminder of it being there, but no attention is
> drawn to it.
>
> It isn't the choice I would make, but the result isn't as bad as I had
> imagined when I first heard about it.
>
> Kristin
>
> --
>   Kristin Rollins
>   kristin at verumsolum.com
>   Portsmouth, VA
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, at 10:50 AM, ME Michaud wrote:
> > That's weird. Like an admission fee?
> >
> > We had a hapless canvasser who suggested people calculate the price of
> > each communion and pledge that amount weekly.
> > -M
> >
> > On Thursday, December 3, 2015, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > the offering plates are no longer brought forward at that point in the
> > > service. (Rather than being passed around, they sit on a table at the
> > > front of the aisle, where people can place their offerings in them as
> > > the move forward to receive communion, and then they are brought to the
> > > altar after everybody has received communion
> > >
>