[Magdalen] Education.

[Charles Wohlers]

This is (or was - my experience goes back ~30 years) common in the Northeast 
in RC parishes, and it indeed is, in effect,  an admission charge. There is 
a separate collection later - usually with guys with baskets on long poles 
which they slide down the pew - much more efficient, I guess, than "passing 
the plate".

Personally, I'm not impressed with either of these practices.

Chad Wohders
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jay Weigel
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 11:22 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Education.

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.