LENT LESS
I'm not a holy man. Not in the least.
What I am today is really a far cry from my younger self.
I actually considered priesthood. I was a DWTL rector. I memorized all the lines the priest says during mass.
Since then, the closest I've ever come is giving the homily during my parents' 25th anniversary.
I write this, fresh from another weekend where I missed mass. It's been so long since I've gone, I can't remember when I started skipping on it. I could of course, look back on my time sheets and pinpoint when things just started getting so busy at work, that I'd rather just sleep in on weekends. But that shouldn't be an excuse.
I'm at a spiritual ebb. It doesn't help that we stopped going to mass at the Church of the Gesu in Ateneo. My family's football school schedule puts going to mass there out of question. So, our family settles for mass in San Beda. Well and good for my dad and my brother - since they graduated from there.
But as for me, I want to go to the Ateneo mass. I NEED to go to the Ateneo mass. Is it wrong for me to want that? It's where I feel closest to God. Where I feel like my spirituality is at a peak - figuratively and literally.
I need some time to reconnect to God.
I know just where to do it.
Forgive the ramblings of a man set adrift.
I NEED to go to the Ateneo mass. Is it wrong for me to want that? It's where I feel closest to God. Where I feel like my spirituality is at a peak - figuratively and literally.
ditto.
i hear you.
Posted by
Unknown |
6:38 PM
yes jay, there's this SOMETHING about Ateneo masses. or maybe i'm being biased? but seriously, it just seems to have more meaning when a Jesuit priest officiates it. more so when it's actually at the ateneo.
i wish i had a car and my boyfriend would drive me to ateneo for mass, though. my family has always been a bit, uh, wary, about jesuit teachings.
Posted by
arybba |
5:27 PM
u serious? you considered being a priest before? :P hehehe kidding. weird because this post seem to be connected to my post about going to mass in different chapels...
Posted by
TR |
11:07 PM
Oh my god I'm not the only one! I LOVE going to mass in Ateneo. I'm not sure why. The solemnity? The community? The good homilies? I feel so close to God whenever I go to mass there.
Posted by
Carambs |
11:36 PM