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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I may be wrong, from the OP's description it sounds like she asked the priest for a reference, the priest wrote the reference, and [b]then[/b] the priest called her out and said, "Hey, I said I knew you from Mass, so now you have to come to Mass so I'm not a liar."

Had the priest, as others have suggested, said, "I [b]will[/b] write your recommendation if you come to Mass," that would be different.

But if the chronology is what was implied from OP's post, then the retroactive demand for consideration fails (from a legal perspective). However, you still have to live with your grandparents and deal with the priest, so I'd say you're SOL.[/quote]

Priests are very "assume-y" and people are slow to say, "Oh, and by the way, I know my last name is O'Catholic, but you should know I never go to church, and live with 3 dudes, who I sleep with on alternate nights. That is cool, right? Also, I am a kinda into witchcraft."
If you to a priest for a letter, it is implied that the letter has something to do with your religious life.  If the priest was a professor, or something, and you first met the priest at mass, and then took a theology class or something, they can say, "I met her at mass, and then got to know her through her outstanding committment to the homeless when she volunteered at _____."

If the reference to mass is in the past, and you stopped going, nobody lied.  If the letter says, "What I love about this kid is how she attends mass every week, and therefore you should <let her into your college, hire her, give her a pony> but you stop going, that is "uncool" but not a lie.

I suspect he (and your grandparents) want you to attend mass.

Go to church, or tune them out, unless the letter has some correlation to going to mass, like becoming a catechism teacher.

If it is not religious, and he wrote it as a friend, I think you are off the hook, because you did GO to mass when he met you, and whether or not you are going now doesn't negate the fact he first met you at church.

He could be joking to gently remind you that weekly mass is an obligation (not an opinion). [/quote]

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