The church would be standing room only. And mum would be all annoyed and go “tfft, why don’t they come the rest of the year”. And baby me would think “fucking fake Catholics”.
Also remembering the time my 9 year old brother got drunk on eggnog and shout-whispered “WOW I’M SO DRUNK” to me in church.
My mum is still judging you if you don’t go to church, btw.
If you’ve seen one Catholic mass, you’ve seen all of them. The only times they change things up are Christmas and Easter. Those are pretty rituals with incense and lots of candles. Catholics could make the other masses more interesting but the only innovation in the past century was having mass in English and the most devout Catholics hate that.
I would not conflate being a trad with devout tbh
Do they not have like sermons or something? Or like what if the priest is feeling inspired does she not give explanatory speeches or w/e before songs?
There is a sermon, but no energy to it like a lot of the protestant denominations. In two years of Catholic school doing mass three times per week I don’t recall there ever being a single quote someone shared after or question I had to consider. Nothing ever touched on liberation theology themes, politics, or history to the point that I listened and thought “neat”. That’s only a sample size of two churches though.
Thanks for sharing about your experience. What a deadening waste of time!
Am Eastern Orthodox from my mom’s side (I’m not really a Christian + was never baptized) and I can’t relate sorry. We do cool shit like this sometimes when our Christmas rolls around on January 7th:
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Was at mass this morning with mum, was fairly full. Usually only full for Christmas and Easter in filthy europoor Lutheran churches as well.
My mum hardly ever goes to church though, only went this year since nan died.
Honestly I’m pretty sure that, at least where I live, there aren’t a huge number more people going to Mass on Christmas and Easter. The Church just fills up tremendously because in most Sundays, a good chunk of people go to nearby chapels instead of the main parish, but on Christmas and Easter only the parish is open. When I go to the chapels instead of the parish there’s usually a good 60 ish people attending Mass per chapel; multiply that by 5 to 7 chapels and distribute it across the 3 Masses that are celebrated for those days and you don’t really need to have those many more churchgoers than usual to fill up a Church.
YMMV though, I live somewhere that religion isn’t necessarily as tied into identity as the US, I think in the US if being Catholic is part of your identity but you cba going to Mass every Sunday you have to still validate your identity by going twice a year. Over here it’s really just whatever. Maybe the identity thing is just an impression I get from online American tradcath types though.
My mum and sister go to whichever church has the best carols. They don’t care about the Jesus stuff, they just really like carol singing.
This is what I want. Singing songs in a big group is fun.
