The following comes from a Nov. 18 story on KLTV.
A Freemont, California church is giving new meaning to the term ‘holy rollers’ with its new drive-thru service.
“You know, I’ve always seen drive-thru food, drive-thru coffee and why not drive-thru God?” said Holy Spirit Catholic Church Father Mathew Vellankal. “You don’t have to prepare. You don’t have to plan. And you can experience God’s immense love in two or three minutes.”
The idea for the service spawned out of a desire to expand people’s options to get spiritual relief.
“We’re thinking outside the box because normally we have only the Sunday Masses, the Bible ministry and other ministry. So this is totally something new,” Vellankal said.
For an hour in the afternoon, drivers can stop by before going home or running errands, pray with church volunteers and be on their way in no time. Vellankal said in this case he knows it’s not quality but quantity.
“It’s not always (that) the drive-thru coffee or the drive-thru food is the best, but it’s the most convenient,” he said.
On the first night cars were lined up to get a quick order of ‘Hail Mary’ or ‘Our Father.’
“I think it’s really nice. It’s very convenient, obviously,” said Jacqueline Ramacciotti.
Monica Slivinsky, another driver in the line, offered this opinion, “It’s the kind of world that we’re living in.”
Vallenkal said sometimes it’s a matter of convenience.
“Sometimes not everyone everybody has the time to spend an hour in Mass on a daily basis, so spending some time to pray with other people, I think is very empowering,” he said.
To read the original story, click here.
Just turn on EWTN if you don’t want to pray alone; you can pray the Rosary, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Chaplet of St. Michael at home.
https://www.ewtn.com/
Just click on Television after you get to the web site.
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Do you think that Fr Vellankal encourages his literate Parish members to read Sacred Scripture and the CCC at home, since these are the two most important books in the Catholic Faith ?
No doubt there will be many complaints below in the CCD readers comments regarding this program. So I want to say this is a great idea.
No, it’s not a great idea. Prayer is not an afterthought, a task that can be equated with ordering curly fries. Where is the reverence – missing – just like it is at those quickie Masses some priests rush through to get on to their next appointment. God deserves time, attention and respect and a jaunt through the drive through just won’t cut it.
Better than nothing you say? Please, the fast food mentality has ruined waistlines and now threatens souls. Get on your knees, and preferably in a church in front of the Blessed Sacrament!
Why do you think quickie drive through prayer is a good idea, Anne?
Do you think that God does not deserve the very best from us, including our undivided attention while at prayer ?
CCC: ” 2620 Jesus’ filial prayer is the perfect model of prayer in the New Testament. Often done in solitude and in secret, the prayer of Jesus involves a loving adherence to the will of the Father even to the Cross and an absolute confidence in being heard.”
Btw are you going to give someone a Catholic Bible which contains the speech of God, and or Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997) which contains the Doctrine of the Faith for Christmas gifts?
If not, why not ?
Good idea.
Monica Slivinsky, another driver in the line, offered this opinion, “It’s the kind of world that we’re living in.”
Yes, that is the kind of world we are living in, one that has no time for God. And we can see what that has gotten us.
Once again the Modernist AmChurch is showing its colors.
Now that we have bought one of their so called Cathedrals, why not?
Do the volunteers also wash the windows and fill the tires, etc. etc. ad nauseam?
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
Kind of like Dial a Prayer.
My post was not meant to be a reply to Kenneth, I meant to post it by itself. Anyway, there once was and maybe still is a Dial a Saint, too.