Mass
Unfortunately, with several unexpected absences of folks who help out due to weather.... most every task at mass needed my attention. Our priest even added a special “all parishioners” candle lighting aspect to mass today. So, I had so many tasks to do.... ushering, Eucharistic layminister, acolyte, candle distributor, candle lighter, filling the alter candles.... and several other tasks, I very unfortunately cannot recall what any of the readings were about nor much about Father’s homily.
I feel guilty that I did not pay attention better. Even though I was running around like the proverbial “chicken with its head cut off” the entire time I was there, it is not a legitimate excuse for not paying attention more deeply. I will have to go to the Catholic Bishop’s Mass Reading website to try to read what I missed.
It is still not the same, but it is what I can do.
PipeTobacco
2 Comments:
Having been an E.M., Lector, acolyte, and now choir musician, I understand how that can happen. Sometimes it comes with the effort of making sure others have a holy experience. Take solace in that, that your fellow parishioners had a fuller, more spiritual experience in part because of your efforts. God smiles at his workers, even when they're very busy.
Schrodinger's Dog.... Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it.... it does help put things into a "calmer" perspective for me.
PipeTobacco
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