My Easter was chaotic, but enjoyable. Sadly, we were unable to make it to Latin Mass (which was what I'd hoped to do), but Easter Mass at Our Mother of Sorrows was pleasant, too. The 11am was slammed! Dad and Grace and Princess had to sit separately, and Sistra and Gilbert and Mum and I were lucky enough to all be able to sit together. I wish all the Masses, all year, were like that in terms of attendance...
Side note to child church organizers: if your church has a sound system, chances are that they can set up a speaker to it, even in another room. Ask to see if you can get one in the room where you conduct child church so that you can keep an eye on the progress of the Mass and not come in during the Consecration.
I hope everyone had a blessed Triduum and is enjoying their Easter season!
4 comments:
Ink, you are much more charitable than I would be in your writing about "child church" noisily disrupting the Consecration at Easter Mass.
(I must admit that I felt anger at the disruption. Now I truly understand the anger Jesus felt as he was throwing out the money changers.)
If not a speaker in the child church room, the least they could do is send out a quiet adult to silently peek out and see where in the Mass we are.
Ink's Mom
Or, better yet, send somebody over to get them after the Homily so they come back when they're supposed to.
Or, best of all, teach the kids to actually sit through Mass and be properly catechized...and have Children's programs OUTSIDE Mass time...
High Mass yesterday was awesome! Anytime there's a sung Latin Mass, it's TOTALLY worth attending
Oh, I have plenty of things we could fix about "child church." But coming in at an acceptable time is, at the very least, something that needs fixing, desperately.
I'd have gone, but I've got a guest in the house right now and an itinerary like you wouldn't believe. Is there a High Mass coming up in a few weeks (like... May 2), maybe? Or is that just Low? (Listen to me, heh. "Just" Low.)
Not to be a Bible thumper, however:
Matthew 18:3-4
The money changer story is very different from children going to learn about Jesus in a manner they can comprehend.
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