It's funny how people remember their religious duties on the biggest festivals. Like today, everyone rushes to the church and swears that they have undergone a religious conversion. Come to a church on an Ordinary Day, and you'll hardly find ten people. Come there on a Sunday, you will find that the church is full. Come there, say, on an Easter Sunday, not only will you not get a seat, but if you are a „late“ comer (came 5 to 10 minutes prior the beginning of the service) you will have to listen to the service outside.
It seems that the religious festivities bring out the guilt, that otherwise, is not touched. Coming from a religious country, where everyone assumes, that everyone is a Catholic, or at least a Christian, one follows the mob and often comes to the service with their family, encouraged by their elderly entourage. Nevertheless, is it all in numbers? Isn't it all in how honestly you participate in the service (as I've been told all my life)?
However, any institution is dependent on ordinary people. So I guess, it is not a sin for even the holiest, to allow the money collecting during the service to be arrogantly self - centered.