Catholicism
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Chrism Mass
On Monday, rather than attend RCIA class (an event I have yet to miss), I attended the Chrism Mass at my local diocese. I’d planned to arrive early, as I figured a diocese-wide Mass would be crowded, but I did not expect the standing-room-only cathedral. There was barely a place to park my car, squeezing… Continue reading
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On Honesty, and Forgiveness
It’s often the things that you anticipate being the most difficult that end up not being difficult at all. For weeks, perhaps months, I’d been anxious over confession. Where do I start? How specific do I have to get? What if I forget something? I’d scheduled a time between Masses, outside the normal allotted half-hour… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6