Farewell Mass
Sunday was our last mass in our old church building. It was a little lengthier than normal, with prayers of the faithful that reflected on things that have happened in that building over its 50-year history. So we prayed for all the babies who were baptized at that baptismal font (including our own Agent Murphy), all the couples married at that altar, all the people whose funerals were celebrated there, etc. It would have been touching… Well, it was touching. But the mood shifted to comical for us when we prayed that the angels that have surrounded us in that building will travel across the parking lot to the new building. Golly, I sure hope the angels can make it. They’re only supernatural celestial beings. I don’t know if they can cross a parking lot!
We must have just been in a punchy mood. There were two baby boys baptized at our Mass on Sunday. One of them was named Gavin David. Given that we sit near the back with Agent Murphy, we can’t always hear everything clearly. Mr. Tldz turned to me and said, “Did they just say his name is Katherine David?” We had to work hard not to laugh raucously. I said that may be a danger of waiting until birth to find out the baby’s sex – you end up with a name like that!
The dedication Mass for the new church will take place on Saturday. It will begin in the old church, but we’ll only be in there for a few minutes; so this really was something of a farewell.
Looking forward to the dedication – not something one gets to witness all the time.