Posted on 9 January 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf\t<\/p>\n
NCReg has an interview with a player on the Minnesota Vikings, Kevin McDermott, both a mackeral-snapper and a long-snapper.<\/p>\n
Here is the bit that caught my eye:<\/p>\n
Q: How does the Catholic Church help you the most?<\/p>\n
McDermott: What gives me the most strength and security is being a part of the routines and rituals of the Church. I realized in high school, partially due to a retreat in my junior year, how dependent I was on a regular schedule that included Sunday Mass. Then, as pro football became more and more of a real-life possibility, I was determined to keep up a schedule based on traditional spirituality.
\n I wanted to do well in football, for sure, but football was not going to get in the way of being a good Catholic. Every week for me in the NFL \u00e2\u20ac\u201d whether that was preseason, regular season or postseason \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has also included a Sunday Mass, which, most of the time, has been done the evening before games.
\n Maybe the coolest thing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever been a part of was a Latin Mass in London. The 49ers were over there in 2013 for a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the priest made available to the team only did Latin Masses. Usually, people associate traditional Masses like that with beautiful cathedrals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d something I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve experienced as an altar boy in Nashville \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but this time, it was in a conference room of a hotel.
\n Despite the plain surroundings, or maybe even because of them, I was so enthralled and moved by what was happening. It was an ordinary situation made quite extraordinary through the beautiful gift of the Latin Mass. Being a part of that with my teammates was unexpected and much appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Posted on 9 January 2016 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf NCReg has an interview with a player on the Minnesota Vikings, Kevin McDermott, both a mackeral-snapper and a long-snapper. Here is the bit that caught my eye: Q: How does the Catholic Church help you the most? McDermott: What gives me the most strength and security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}