As you can tell, I'm behind on posts again. No need to quote me to me, I know all about slothfulness. I can't blame the Olympics anymore. Maybe I just don't want to give up summer. September 2's stop was Our Lady of Grace, and I believe closes out the northern Baltimore County churches.
I think this is a good time to point out that it is not entirely obvious at all churches where you enter. The church was closed for earthquake repairs and will be painted some colors like biscuit. Mass was in the parish hall which overlooks some nice greenery (ignoring the power lines) and has a lot of chandeliers.
There was a pretty good sized crowd, plenty of older couples and families with school aged kids. I know I'm not a parent, but while watching the little boy in front of me get in trouble, I had to wonder about church going strategy. I mean it seems obvious to me that if you have two kids and two parents, you play man to man defense. But I digress.
There was a good homily about living a life of service. There was good music and heavy recruitment for the choir. If CCSFX in Hunt Valley is where you will stay until the last note of the last verse of the closing hymn, Our Lady of Grace is where you are in your car before the the refrain.
In clever sightings, they had bins labeled in the make shift narthex for box tops, soup labels, ink cartridges and grocery receipts that the school collects. St. Thomas More did that too, and as someone who tries to tithe 100% of that kind of stuff, it's nice when it's easy.
I hope to go back when the church opens.
Preview of coming attractions.....St. Clare, Corpus Christi. And then there were two.
1. I agree re: man to man defense. But it seems usually one parent in on the offense praying hard to God and the other is keeping little devils in line.
ReplyDelete2. Never though of donations like box tops, campbell's lables and such as tithing..but you are so right! I now don't feel quite so bad about not tithing to a particular parish since my donations get spread among a few..