I went to the noon Mass this afternoon. As usual, I found something to distract me. After all, without distractions, I just might get to thinking I’m way too good. 
I do try to eliminate one particular distraction. There’s this woman who attends daily Mass. She’s a good woman. But she crosses herself every 5 seconds. That’s almost as bad as Curtsy Man. This was a guy who genuflected multiple times. He’d walk into Church and genuflect. He’d take a few more steps and genuflect again. It got to looking like he was curtsying, thus my nickname for him. Today’s distraction was a man in front of me on the way up to communion. He had on a belt and suspenders. Is it just me or is that overkill?
Later this afternoon I took a ride out to my sister’s and to my sister in-law’s to pick up some pictures my niece & nephews drew for Stephen. A friend of mine is going to Rome next week so she’s going to bring some stuff to Steve. I love the notes the kids wrote. My favorites, though, were some lines my 8 year old nephew Joey wrote:
This is a picture of me riding in a motor car in pencilvaniua.
How is roam?
We’ll see you in a long, long, long, long, long time.
Why did you want to be a prest in the first place?
I can’t wait to see how my son answers that last question!
Oh that note is just precious…i’m sure Steve will get a kick out of it
Yeah, some of the best people watching happens at mass.
One day you will get to go to roam…..and it won’t be a long, long, long, long time.
Oh please share his responses! That’s too cute!
Um, and I do realize I’m going straight to hell for this, but are you sure your church isn’t also the local OCD meeting place?
Speaking of Mass, I’m so excited. I’ll get to go to Mass every Friday with Linus. Man I hope she behaves!
She’s not always the quietest child at weekend Mass.
“Why did you want to be a prest in the first place?” THAT IS PRICELESS!!!
As for those people at Mass, I had to laugh at what Lanny said about the OCD meeting place. But, really, stop and think about it…why NOT genuflect and cross yourself repeatedly. I am not Catholic, but I thought that usually Hail Mary’s are said repeatedly rather than just once, and isn’t praying the Rosary saying the same thing repeatedly. So the genuflecting and crossing of the self repeatedly actually rather makes sense. The suspenders AND belt, however? No. That’s just wrong.
I would really like to go to roam. Even pencilvaniua would be okay…