Sun Feb 28, 2021, 08:09 PM
No Vested Interest (4,893 posts)
I was back at my parish church for Mass for the first time in a year this weekend.
Everything was right for me: two vaccines, sunny day, feeling well.
I plotted my day to go to Saturday afternoon Mass. Parked fairly easily, found the interior as I had been told - every other pew blocked off. Crowd light compared to last year. Instead of persons taking the collection, a central basket was in the center near the entrance to the church. Large hymnals replaced by selections printed in the bulletin. However, I felt an interior joy, excitement mixed with peace, to be back in this "home for my soul". I feel I've aged a lot during this lost year - slower and not as steady afoot. But I'm back in the familiar place where I was baptized so many decades ago, and where my spouse and I brought our children each Sunday throughout their formative years. Life will be good again.
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No Vested Interest | Feb 2021 | OP |
CurtEastPoint | Feb 2021 | #1 | |
lynintenn | Feb 2021 | #2 | |
shenmue | Feb 2021 | #3 | |
Drum | Feb 2021 | #4 |
Response to No Vested Interest (Original post)
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 08:23 PM
CurtEastPoint (16,150 posts)
1. I look forward to returning.
Response to No Vested Interest (Original post)
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 08:28 PM
lynintenn (537 posts)
2. We go back March 21 first time since last March
I miss my church family. We are asked to double mask and I don't think we will be singing. I am scheduled to do. the readings. I had both vaccines so I don't feel quite as vulnerable.
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Response to lynintenn (Reply #2)
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 09:21 PM
shenmue (38,168 posts)
3. Good luck to all of you.
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Response to No Vested Interest (Original post)
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 10:43 PM
Drum (7,497 posts)
4. It must have felt good to be back in the space.
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