weekend bliss
Well the weekend was excellent. I still can't believe it though.. Easter come and gone already. My folks wanted to do the Easter Vigil mass on saturday nite, essentially a really dramatic long mass heh.. midnight masses always bring back memories of stuffy rooms, little air to breathe and sleepy heads.. so I passed on that and it seemed to be just enough firepower for my mom to agree. Hehehe. So Sunday mass it was, got there early even and it was still packed to the gills. I like the St. Thomas Newman center church though on the OSU campus. Ya get alot young folks, accedmics, lotta professors, my folks always help out etc. Its a nice community. A furious community actually, always busy with something, student group, emerging ideas group, young more 'radical' like priests seem to appear and give talks, we even have women doing the surmons which would be a BIG no at other churches ive gone to, so its kinda nice to see a more aware with whats happening out there kinda of leadership at the Newman Center.
Currently run by Paulist priests.. which reminds me theres a special coming on tv (hopefully not passed that covers St. Paul that I need to tivo). One the pastor leaders there Father Dave is a great old guy. Since i'm kinda off and on with the church thing some days he always greets me with a high dose of sarcasm which i love. Yesterday he greeted my folks and then shook my hand saying "we always welcome new people.." and i retorted with "well it hear catholism is all the rage these days..." and he replies "2000 years running ya know" and i say "oh i see i see...". Father Dave and I rarely talk faith really I dunno really, maybe cause to me faith is personal. He always gives me a glowing warm reception and he knows my character so well, and he of course loves to laugh so thats good. I'm joining him and my folks tonight for dinner which is always a treat really cause i get to hear stories of the paulists and their inner workings and vatican this and bishop that etc. I keep Father Dave in my prayers often. He's got a bad hip and they are sending him to Austin I think this coming August. He's very old and when I see him i can feel the history and the lives hes touched along the way. He's a great priest. Any priest that can tango with me and my sarcasm and wit I find unquie and highly enjoyable. Heck I sometimes go to mass for him more so than anything else.
Course I like mass for other things as well. I really love to sing at mass. I never used to do it, even while growing up I hardly sang a world, maybe i was intimitated by my fathers boooming low voice or the way he'd always look at us kids when the allileula's hit heh. But for the past few years i've been back in Ohio i've enjoyed singing at mass alot. Heck I'd consider joining the choir if we had one.. we dont have one luckily, and i probably need some lessons to get my voice in shape etc. too.
Other reasons to be there are purely personal and cant really be expressed here. Least I see no point in doing so. But overall it was a great Easter. It was good to see all the family come together, eat the feast, talk and have a good time. Kids are crazy and they freak me out at times. I'd need to be much more relaxed with kids i think. I dont see how you can be really. At the dinner table Mama talked about how her mother used to tell to practice selective hearing heh... kids they are crazy 2 year old walking destroyers. Haha. Great kids though. I keep thinking, ya raise them in a white padded room, thats the way to go. After Easter dinner I went home and closed my eyes sitting on the bed... and woke up 12hrs later. Wooohaaa that was a good sleep. Good sleep is always nice.
Well another week of retail design madness occurs. Stay frisky out there folks!