#at least in church hierarchy and marian dogma and that sort of thing

[thebirdandhersong]

general thoughts from church today:

perhaps I should go to the 10am Mass next time if I want to see anyone remotely my age, though there is a part of me that absolutely loves being around people 40+ :)

a part of me balks a bit at the social culture at this church -- I'm used to people lingering for a WHILE after church to chat and catch up and eat lunch together. These people simply booked it as fast as they could, many of them halfway through the last song, which was simply bizarre to me. This might be something specific to the 8am crowd but still

God bless the only person who came up to say hi to me (I was shaking in my boots because my head is full of Anglican liturgy and there ARE some slight differences between Catholic and Anglican call-and-responses), who promptly said: Do you want to see pictures of my grandson. And I said yes. And I saw about ten pictures of her grandson and he was very cute.

God bless the priest who, when I went up for a blessing, was so confused as to why I wouldn't take the wafer (sir, I would've, but I know I shouldn't haha)

God bless the other priest, who preached today very gently and earnestly on God's love and looked very kind!