text: “Parishes are nothing more than communities sent on a mission and there are clear signs, through the community, they are called to endure,” he (Bishop Thomas Dowd) said.—Alan Hustak, Catholic Register Special.  On the other hand, “Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel” (in this case people serving in an administratively dysfunctional monarchal church), “just as he promised” (1 Kings 8:55).  “Riches and honor are from you” rather than from middle-class Catholics contributing 1% of their income to dysfunctional folly.  “Jesus said to his disciples:  `Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you’” (Matthew 7:7).  In other words, think and do not tolerate rigid pay-pray-and-obey dysfunctional practices.  Liturgy of the Word, Readings 943, 945, 947, in Thanksgiving to God: In Various Public Circumstances.