Church Search

How important is the church? Okay, maybe not the church itself, but the priest.

Since I've been back in Kansas City I've been searching for a Church. Each Sunday I've attended a different church in the area.

I've always liked this particular Catholic church in Independence. It's recently been redone and it is absolutely beautiful. Though I've been to this church for graduations, etc. I've never attended a service there so I decided to try it out. I still loved the church but was less than happy with the priest. He wasn't a bad priest, his homily was interesting, but I've definitely enjoyed other priests' more.

The next week I decided to pay a visit to my high school's parish, St. Mary's. It was weird. I thought it would feel familiar. A church where I had attended for four straight years. But it was the absolute opposite. The pews seemed unusually uncomfortable, I missed the instructions on going up for communion and not that it's an important factor, but it smelled funny.

This week I'm going to try a different church, there happens to be quite a few in the area. Maybe it's the ONE, or maybe I'll keep looking but either way I'm still attending services and the search for the right church is making the transition from covert to Catholic that much more interesting.