....why I don't attend Mass at the 'home' parish anymore, especially weekday masses when the school's student body is in attendance.
The inane Children's Liturgy - or in today's case, the Feast of the Inordinate Corruption.
I had no other option today - so there I was.
Oh, it's not so much the 4th grade girls who twirled their colorful ribbons during the procession, or in the sanctuary throughout the Offertory hymn. Nor was it the quasi-signing/hand jive thingy those same girls did along with Responsorial Psalm, standing in the sanctuary again, leading the congregation - at least I think that's what they were trying to do, because I noticed some of the other students wriggling along and moving their hands while in their seats - doing something comparable to Marlee Matlin giving Macarena instructions to deaf people. I can even overlook the end-of-Mass applause for the children's chorus, and for how well behaved the kindergartners were (which is easily achieved by telling them Santa is watching, y'know).
No, I think it was the pantomime gospel - as the deacon read the Gospel (children's version, no less), a girl dressed in a blue sari/toga and a boy donning angel wings acted out the verses. In front of the altar. While moms videotaped.
Yeah, that was it.
Here's the ironic thing - during the homily, Father spoke on how Mary had been preserved from sin from the first moment of conception....he referred to sins as "making bad choices", so Mary never made any "bad choices"....I was thinking - "This whole liturgy is a litany of bad choices!"
Thankfully I didn't throw money away by sending the Sons of LarryD to that school.
Mary, Mother of God, save us from active participation!!
Instant "Acts"ess
