More Good Friday Stuff

[alixtii]

The objectless genuflection continues unabated, as does my amusement.

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I didn't get to see Jesus Christ Superstar. The original plan was to watch it with my mom, but then our schedules didn't really end up fitting all that well. Then my parents ended up watching it with ladyphoenixmage and her family while I went to mass. (Is it a mass if there's no consecration?) Lots of kneeling, but at least this time I didn't tear out the knees of my pants like I did the senior year of undergrad.

Came home and my brother's car was gone. (This is at about 8:30pm, for reference.) He must have been picked up from college by my grandmother, gotten home, and left (to see his girlfriend, presumably). He didn't waste any time, did he?

Comments

[deliriumdriver.livejournal.com]

Nope, not a mass unless there's a consecration. Objectless genuflection doesn't so much amuse me as make me grumble about the low standards of teaching that goes on in most parishes. Also, two children were baptized at the vigil mass I went to this evening-- is it hypocritical of me to support infant baptism when I'm slightly disturbed by seven-year-old baptism?

One more thing-- Fr. M. made the command decision to skip the last four of the seven Old Testament readings. (I made the command decision to read them instead of paying attention to his homily.) I kind of want to write an angry letter to the bishop demanding that he be formally reprimanded for raping one of the most beautiful and important liturgies of the year, but I'm not sure whether or not I'm overreacting.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

No, I'm definitely with you with not minding infant baptism all that much (I mean, I probably prefer adult baptism, and I like being able to remember my own baptism one year ago, but infant baptism doesn't really bother me) but being decidely squicked by young child baptism. (We had a pair of children baptized recently--at All Saint's, probably, although I suppose it could have been Epiphany.) It's an uncanny valley effect--they're close enough to being able to decide for themselves that their inability to do so impresses upon oneself more forcefully, while with infant baptism it can be taken for granted that the infant can choose and that the parents and godparents are stepping in in the meantime.

We didn't have a baptism at the Easter Vigil service this year, with the result of the mass being not all that well attended. :( We did three readings out of--I believe the BCP gives up to twelve options?--which is of course the same thing we did last year (and which the BCP puts forward as standard practice). (Indeed, I read the same exact lesson I did last year.) We never have a homily during the Vigil service, so there wasn't anything to ignore even if I wanted to.