Maybe He's In Mourning

[Cassandra]

I have to admitt we are not the most well behaved family at mass.

LOL!!  You too!!  My husband would literaly fall asleep all the time during the Mass and would start snoring really loudly.  Then my daughters who were small at the time would start laughing & giggling real loud at the site of their father snoring in church.  You can imagine the looks and stares I got from the other parishioners!  And I'd be stuck in the middle with one hand trying to shhhh the kids up and the other hand nudging and poking my husband to wake up!   I stopped going to church shortly after that!!


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[Birdie]

Cassandra,
                      My kids now call me the snorter.  Our church is famous for doing all these way out "new" stuff during mass.  This year at Christmas we thought we would go to midnight mass hoping for some good Christmas carols and not too much extra stuff.  When this mid-aged woman danced down the asile with a candle and than pranced around the alter I totally lost control.  The whole church heard me snort trying to control the laughter.  We are worst behaved now than we were when the kids were young.  I don't go to mass very often.  My husband goes every week.  Somehow I am becoming my mother and that scares the crap out of me.

Birdie

[Misty]

 ::)Well, I live in an area where most Catholic churches are ethnic in origin, and continue to follow many ethnic customs. I would have to say that the most unusual (for me, that is) custom I've ever seen was a particular Slovak Mass in which some parishoners polka-danced down the aisle.

 I was a convert after the Latin mass was abandoned, so I'm not really endeared to it, but as a catechist and Eucharistic minister, I dearly love the Mass as it is today.

                                                       Misty