An Interesting Question...

I have been following the upcoming news to both the Synod on the New Evangelization and the Year of Faith that begins on October 11th.

I have noticed that the Holy Father is to celebrate a second mass outside.

I applaud this and welcome it. I also am tempted to ask why we, as priests, are so often put in the position of denying engaged couples their request to have their marriages witnessed outdoors?

Nothing frustrates me more than our shared failure to meet and accomodate the faithful who are reaching out to their Church at a milestone in their lives.

Perhaps we still have more to learn in this "New Evangelization."