Mass was an adventure today

[traillius]

1. I went to 5:30 Mass, which I rarely go to.
2. My son Altar Served
3. A friends’s kid we brought to mass, he got sick and I had to take home right in the middle of Mass and come back.
4. The easter holy water sprinkling became a holy water splashing for me
5. The priest made a face when he drank the blood of Christ.
6. There was only one eucharistic minister, so there was no Cup communion for the congregants
7. The priest, at the end, gave candy to the adults as well as the children.
8. My wife came, who is usually too tired.

 

[tawny]

1. I went to 5:30 Mass, which I rarely go to.
2. My son Altar Served
3. A friends’s kid we brought to mass, he got sick and I had to take home right in the middle of Mass and come back.
4. The easter holy water sprinkling became a holy water splashing for me
5. The priest made a face when he drank the blood of Christ.
6. There was only one eucharistic minister, so there was no Cup communion for the congregants
7. The priest, at the end, gave candy to the adults as well as the children.
8. My wife came, who is usually too tired.

Well at least you got to Mass.

 

[Celtic_Maiden]

1. I went to 5:30 Mass, which I rarely go to.
2. My son Altar Served
3. A friends’s kid we brought to mass, he got sick and I had to take home right in the middle of Mass and come back.
4. The easter holy water sprinkling became a holy water splashing for me
5. The priest made a face when he drank the blood of Christ.
6. There was only one eucharistic minister, so there was no Cup communion for the congregants
7. The priest, at the end, gave candy to the adults as well as the children.
8. My wife came, who is usually too tired.

a Most Catholic Church’s in England/Ireland do not give the Cup unless one is a celiac , its under the bread only. Except for special occasions.- Weddings etc.

b. Your lucky it was only a good splash of water if you lived in the time of Our Lord the Temple priest gave everyone a good splash of blood from the offering of bulls/cows etc so one’s clothes had a lot of blood on them in dollops.
C. Children are children in getting sick, poor thing.
D. Maybe the priest made a face because sometimes wine can smell quite strong, and Fr. might not be used to drinking strong wine. I am sure you were praying really and not concentrating on Fr.'s face.
E. Men have a problem with patience more than women one only has to look at the way they drive.
F. Hopefully your wife can make it to Mass most if not all Sundays nice to see both parents giving the good example.

God Bless, Walk with the Lord.

 

[YADA]

1. I went to 5:30 Mass, which I rarely go to.
2. My son Altar Served
3. A friends’s kid we brought to mass, he got sick and I had to take home right in the middle of Mass and come back.
4. The easter holy water sprinkling became a holy water splashing for me
5. The priest made a face when he drank the blood of Christ.
6. There was only one eucharistic minister, so there was no Cup communion for the congregants
7. The priest, at the end, gave candy to the adults as well as the children.
8. My wife came, who is usually too tired.

Sounds like you had a wonderful encounter with Christ … and you posted this just to share what a joyful time you had - right?

 

[dje101]

Along the lines of interesting trips to Mass, I’d like to ask if anyone has been to a parish where the choir doesn’t use actual instruments, but instead uses pre-made music?

I recently went to a daily mass at a parish near my home. The choir director, who sang by himself, would basically hit “play” on his set up and would sing to the music. The music had that very generic sound sound like it came from the electric keyboard presets, and consisted of piano, guitar, bass, and drums.

 

[UpUpAndAway]

1. I went to 5:30 Mass, which I rarely go to.
2. My son Altar Served
3. A friends’s kid we brought to mass, he got sick and I had to take home right in the middle of Mass and come back.
4. The easter holy water sprinkling became a holy water splashing for me
5. The priest made a face when he drank the blood of Christ.
6. There was only one eucharistic minister, so there was no Cup communion for the congregants
7. The priest, at the end, gave candy to the adults as well as the children.
8. My wife came, who is usually too tired.

Many blessings in this list!

As for the rest:

• Sick child. This happens. Hope he’s all right now. God bless you for returning. Some folks would have simply left.
• I got hit with so much holy water during the blessing of the palms on Palm Sunday 2013 that I half expected the priest to hand me a bar of soap as well. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/Pascal_S/smileys/shower.gif Fifteen minutes later, I was dry and life went on.
• Our parochial vicar once grimaced when he drank the Precious Blood and I found out after the Mass that unused, unconsecrated wine had been left in the cruet for a week, since the last Sunday Mass (we use different cruets for Mass during the week). This cruet is not transparent, so I couldn’t see there was anything in it and it never occurred to me that anyone would leave unconsecrated wine in the cruet so when I prepared this Mass I had simply poured fresh wine on top of the by-now-heavily-oxidized leftover wine. As a result, the Precious Blood was extremely unpleasant to drink. (I have since had a word with my assistant about this and it has not happened again. :tsktsk My point is that there could have been a legitimate reason for the face.
• We only have Communion with both species once a year, on Holy/Maundy Thursday. To my knowledge it is not required to have it at all.
• I see nothing wrong with candy distribution as long as it’s done after Mass and not during it.

God bless!

 

[paperwight66]

a Most Catholic Church’s in England/Ireland do not give the Cup unless one is a celiac , its under the bread only. Except for special occasions.- Weddings etc.

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Well, I can’t answer for Ireland, but I have to query this statement about England. Where did you get this stat from?

 

[Big_Feet]

How can attending a Mass NOT be an adventure? I mean, where else does one go to the edge of Heaven and back all with no scrapes or bruises?

As for the other things that happened to you…consider them bumps along the road, and give up your suffering/frustrations to the Lord in order to make your purification more complete!

May God bless you and your family, and your family’s friend who is sick.

 

[babochka]

Along the lines of interesting trips to Mass, I’d like to ask if anyone has been to a parish where the choir doesn’t use actual instruments, but instead uses pre-made music?

I recently went to a daily mass at a parish near my home. The choir director, who sang by himself, would basically hit “play” on his set up and would sing to the music. The music had that very generic sound sound like it came from the electric keyboard presets, and consisted of piano, guitar, bass, and drums.

There’s a parish near me that does this. I go there occasionally,as they have a “last chance” Mass at 6:00 in the evening, so if we have sick kids or something and have to split up, it is a convenient option. Generally, I dislike it. Their choir is amazingly talented and I love to hear them sing, but the music from the electric keyboard is loud and annoying and I just think a drum machine has no place in Mass, ever. That’s just my opinion, though, and I have no idea if it allowed officially. I used to think that they only did that for the Sunday evening Mass, but I have since learned that they use the same music at every Mass. In my own parish, all the singing is acapella, so it was a quite a change for me to have the “canned” music.