Sunday, September 03, 2006

Church Oddities


Two odd things today in Mass that I did not think I would ever encounter:

1) Truthiness. Yes, that's right, a Stephen Colbert reference during a homily. At St. Joseph's, it was mentioned while discussing the Gospel reading.

2) Patriotic recessional hymns. I really don't know why this was the case, but the closing song at Mass was America the Beautiful. Now, it's a great song, and would probably be a better fit as our National Anthem, but at the end of Mass?

Just an odd, odd Mass. A couple of us in the pews looked at each other and remarked we hadn't ever seen anything like that.

Anyone else have a weird occurrence like this?

2 comments:

TSL said...

Although not this week, my parish has definitely played America the Beautiful during the recession a few times in the past year. In fact, they probably will again next Sunday since it's so close to 9/11.

I, too, have mixed feelings on the matter.

No Colbert, though, thank goodness.

APOSEC72 said...

If it were next week, it would have made a little more sense with 9/11. If it happened on Memorial Day weekend, I'd understand that too.

But Labor Day weekend? That's not really on par with July 4 or Memorial Day.