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Playing at it
Topic Started: Friday, 8. May 2009, 19:28 (115 Views)
O'Ratty	Friday, 8. May 2009, 19:28 Post #1
Posts: 418 Group: Members Member #223 Joined: March 15, 2009	One of the Catholic clerical blogs had a recent piece about "children's Mass kits", with foam-rubber thuribles and the like. Who remembers "playing at Mass" as a child, or erecting altars and so on? I posted a comment as follows: I came home one afternoon to find my elder daughter (7), wearing a faux cloth-of-gold dining table ornament as an epitrahelion, emerging from behind an amazing ad hoc iconostasis festooned indifferently with icons, stuffed animals and a picture of Spiderman. Her sister (5). diaconally vested in her purple wizard's robe, was intoning the Gospel (language indeterminate, but register emphatically liturgical) from a pulpit of sofa-cushions. I was required immediately to bow down and receive absolution while the epitrahelion was held over my head.
	Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St. Gregory of Nyssa


Rose of York	Friday, 8. May 2009, 19:34 Post #2
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	I tried it. My brother told me off, because I was a girl. He wouldn't even let me be server. There was no other available, so he told me he would do without an altar boy and I was to kneel down and be quiet, so I settled for doing an emergency baptism of the cat.
	$Posted Image$ Catholic and proud of it! Talk to God before Mass. Talk to each other afterwards


Deleted User	Friday, 8. May 2009, 19:44 Post #3
Deleted User	I, like many I suspect, used those sherbet saucers as hosts and Vimto as wine. My younger sister was a very obedient and faithful member of the congregation, there was no sign of peace and I have to admit that there are times I stand at the altar and can't quite believe that I am being allowed to do it for real. Oh happy childhood Oh blessed dream come true and I pray may I never forget the Joy and that as I write another little chap is sharing the dream and serving his little sister sherbet saucers, may he fulfil his dream.
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KatyA	Friday, 8. May 2009, 19:52 Post #4
Administrator Posts: 5,393 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	You mean like this, O'Ratty? http://s10.zetaboards.com/Catholic_CyberForum/topic/7060833/1/#new



O'Ratty	Friday, 8. May 2009, 19:57 Post #5
Posts: 418 Group: Members Member #223 Joined: March 15, 2009	Way hay! I wonder if there's a Byzantine version, with hook-on beard and big glittery Book?
	Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St. Gregory of Nyssa


Joe Valente	Friday, 8. May 2009, 20:35 Post #6
Posts: 390 Group: Members Member #227 Joined: April 3, 2009	epitrahelion O'Ratty, Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is the epitrahelion ? I am guessing that it is the equivalent of a stole.
	What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world but suffers the loss of his soul


O'Ratty	Friday, 8. May 2009, 21:21 Post #7
Posts: 418 Group: Members Member #223 Joined: March 15, 2009	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitrachelion
	Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St. Gregory of Nyssa


John Sweeney	Friday, 8. May 2009, 22:08 Post #8
Posts: 1,834 Group: Members Member #68 Joined: March 20, 2007	Am I the only one who with my 8 brothers and sisters would fight tooth and nail to avoid going to the real Mass and would never have dreamed of playing at it for fun? John



O'Ratty	Saturday, 9. May 2009, 09:51 Post #9
Posts: 418 Group: Members Member #223 Joined: March 15, 2009	No John - that was me, too (minus the brothers, but including the sisters)! The sisters are still like that... Edited by O'Ratty, Saturday, 9. May 2009, 09:53.
	Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St. Gregory of Nyssa


Derekap	Saturday, 9. May 2009, 21:02 Post #10
Posts: 3,408 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: September 26, 2006	I was once witness to a cousin (my age) baptising her doll over the bathroom wash basin. She was very careful not to say Amen.
	Derekap


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