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I love candles and good music.
The Methodists could sing, I'll give them that. A decent church choir is great training. It's how I learned.
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Actually it was "look like."
Trying to type and answer questions from a twelve year-old at the same time makes posting interesting.
I love candles and good music.
Yeah, the Catholics really don't do music well. Which makes no sense, but there it is.
Yeah, the Catholics really don't do music well. Which makes no sense, but there it is.
My officemate (who worked at a Filipino prison school for a while) played me this Filipino Christmas song that was really neat. I can't remember what it was called, though.
I should say I meant in the week-by-week mass/service hymn sense. At Christmas time, the music is carols so it is more similar. And the one reason I'm tempted to go to midnight mass tonight is there is a French church here and nothing beats "O Holy Night" sung at the stroke of midnight.
Oh, I'm not refuting that, Juliana. I'm just saying it's pretty funny to me that Christmas is a firm overlay on other traditions already.
Christmas is a firm overlay on other traditions already
Also, December 25th was the birthday of the god Mithras.
As much as I've turned into a lapsed Catholic, bordering on agnostic, if I have to go to Mass, I'd much rather go to a more traditional one than one of the progressive churches that are turning themselves more Protestant to get more butts in the pews.
No kneelers, singing all of the stuff that used to be chanted (which throws me off if I'm in an unfamiliar church, because no one uses the same melody), holding hands for the Our Father (and raising them at the "for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever" bit)--all of this reminds me more of the time I went to a Lutheran service than the Catholic service I was raised with.
remember my rant about homework over the Thanksgiving school break. mac's homework for Christmas break:
book responses (2-6 sentences) for every weekday he is out, yes, even Christmas day
a snowman themed writing assignment
an alphabet word association writing assignment (done last night to get it DONE)
an "all about me, fill-in the blank sheet.
3-4 math pages
10 words of the day - to write 5 times eacha nd make sentences for
one more thing I am forgetting.
HATE. This time I am writing a note. No way, no how is he doing homework over Feb. and April break. Here's my homework for the teacher and the school: look-up the work BREAK and write out the full definition for me and then 5-6 sentences integrating that definition with your school policy for homework over the 2008/09 "breaks".
No kneelers, singing all of the stuff that used to be chanted (which throws me off if I'm in an unfamiliar church, because no one uses the same melody), holding hands for the Our Father (and raising them at the "for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever" bit)--all of this reminds me more of the time I went to a Lutheran service than the Catholic service I was raised with.
Seriously? Ugh. Lapsed as I am, one of the things I always liked best about Catholicism was how it's a very private sort of service. Certain things you do together, but for the most part, it's... I dunno, quiet and internal, for lack of a better word.