This year's March for Life is the biggest I have seen yet, and I've been going for the past five years (with the exception of last year). Mum and Sistra and I went to 11:30am Mass at the Basilica... it never ceases to amaze me. Something I've noticed about beautiful churches is that they have such a sense of majesty that anyone who enters cannot help but be more reverent than if they were in, say, a convention center. I like that.
Pictures of the March will be posted once my mom has dumped them onto her computer, since mine is less than cooperative. It was a lot of fun and I got to chat with an old friend of mine from middle school.
Saturday was mostly relaxing, though we did end up driving home from staying with relatives in Philli (that's how we didn't have to drive home right after the March, which would have been unpleasant and overly exhausting). Then today, Mum and Sistra and I went to the Latin High Mass at Saint Stan's. I will admit that I got lost a few times... and my knees and shins hurt by the end of it... but I got to wear my new hat and found it interesting how the English side of the missal matches up more closely with the new Mass translations, especially in the Confetior.
Next time I go to Latin Mass, maybe I'll bring a friend or two... same with the March. I'll win people over a little bit at a time! Hopefully, by the time Sistra has graduated high school, Aquinas will be sending a delegation to the March, no matter how small.
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"The English side of the missal matches up more closely with the new Mass translations."
Bingo. Why is it that high school students can get this, but some priests and "lay ministers" can't? It's simple, really. I know it's a platitude in our circle, but honestly, what's more logical than "Saying the black and doing the red?"
Ink et al. Did you wear a grey bowler hat yesterday at Mass? You sat on the Epistle side. Nice hat!
Actually, it's a cloche--very 20s. But thanks, I love it!
My prayer is that by the time Sistra graduates high school, there won't be a need for the March! Instead we can all flood DC for a big Celebrate Life festival!
Pray to end abortion.
Ink's Mom
I agree, Ink's mom!
also, i love that you've paid enough attention to the new translations to notice that...good work, Ink!
Matt: It's actually completely self-centered at its heart. I'm atrocious at memorizing, so I figured I'd get some preemptive studying done before they are implemented. And maybe they'll help me out on my Theology exam; who knows?
haha, nice! The next issue of Faith & Witness (a St Iranaeus Ministries publication) will include an article I wrote on the new translations. I'll reproduce it once it's printed.
Ink..Isn't that the type of hat that the flappers wore in the 1920s? Cool! Maybe we'll see you dressed as a flapper at the next High Mass.
Choir-LOL!
Ink--I've got a query for ya
Do you know Fr Winfried Keller? What are your thoughts on him? I heard him say Mass at St Michael a few weeks back, and thought he was pretty good--gave a rather excellent homily. Any thoughts?
Kellner*
Matt: Yes, I do. I like Fr. Win very much. He always has interesting things to say at Mass.
Choir: Lulz, that's an amusing consideration. But flappers often wore flamboyant colours, and I'd think it would be somewhat disrespectful to seem like I'm trying to show up God.
Ink ..I guess when I think of the 20s I always think of flappers. Hope to see you and your cloche at High Mass again. The next one is February 21.
Matt: Father Kellner's father was the late Hugo Maria Kellner, a philosopher and traditionalist Catholic. Look him up on google.
Matt, did you go to the German Mass at St. Michael? (I'd wanted to go - can't remember what got in the way.) Father Win Kellner is a great guy, from both a priestly and a personal perspective.
We've gotten to know him fairly well in the couple years we've been here. He's very thoughtful and academic (which suits my sensibilities perfectly), yet still has a definite fun side.
He's always willing to at least attempt to answer the tough questions posed by our 2nd grader. (Things like "If the priest is acting as Christ - in persona Christi - during Mass, why does he need to take Communion? Did Jesus partake in the Eucharist?") He was also willing to let last year's 8th grade boys teach him all kinds of crazy dances at the end-of-year dinner dance!
Choir (& Ink), there will be no flapper dresses at Mass. Bright colors aside, they are too short and would be immodest. (Actually, the exact phrase that came to mind was "over my dead body"!)
Ink's Mom
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