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Is it OK to feel that a parish may be too big?

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I don't know how to describe exactly how big this parish is (same parish I described in my post before). I think that the church can fit a few hundred people. There are five different Masses for the weekend: 4:30 Vigil, then for Sunday there is 7:30 am, 9 am, 11 am, and 6 pm. Each of them is quite crowded. Granted, the "least" crowded one is probably the 7:30 one but I don't know firsthand, actually. The parking lot is jam packed otherwise.

I will acknowledge that it has some ways to make inroads in the parish but it's so large that you feel that you may never know enough people. I feel like you can easily feel invisible here. It's not as big as a megachurch but that feeling like you're a drop in the ocean isn't altogether different than being in a megachurch. I am not a member of it and don't plan to become one at this time.
 

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I don't know how to describe exactly how big this parish is (same parish I described in my post before). I think that the church can fit a few hundred people. There are five different Masses for the weekend: 4:30 Vigil, then for Sunday there is 7:30 am, 9 am, 11 am, and 6 pm. Each of them is quite crowded. Granted, the "least" crowded one is probably the 7:30 one but I don't know firsthand, actually. The parking lot is jam packed otherwise.

I will acknowledge that it has some ways to make inroads in the parish but it's so large that you feel that you may never know enough people. I feel like you can easily feel invisible here. It's not as big as a megachurch but that feeling like you're a drop in the ocean isn't altogether different than being in a megachurch. I am not a member of it and don't plan to become one at this time.
I tend to think people that attend the same Mass tend to get to know each other. If you do other activities outside of Mass within the Church, you get to know more. Volunteering is a big avenue of knowing even more people. Daily Mass is pretty much a given that you’ll get to know people. That’s been my experience anyway.
 
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