Sunday, March 8, 2009

Hey, Catholic Church!


GorT and family were sitting in Mass today at our local parish between some early teenagers )who obviously missed getting up for Mass earlier and were sent by their parents to this Mass and while unsupervised, two of them proceeded to loudly whisper through the homily) and a crying baby (who after still not settled by the homily should have been in the back of the church).  During the Eucharistic Rite, the music director had chosen the Agnus Dei (a favorite of GorT) versus the English "Lamb of God."  My daughter was trying to find it in the missalette to follow along - however, it's only available in the hymnal, and even then it's buried.  

In this season of Lent, I find the Latin responses moving and solemn and well placed.  Hopefully, we'll get a few more in Masses before Easter.