I forgot to mention church. Scuba called it uber-liberal. Think Sound of Music choir of about ten people with a conductor (who had his own cordless headset mike thingie,) trumpet, sax, drums, piano... the works. Life Teen on steroids.

So that freaks me out, besides the fact that normal parts of mass that are spoken were sung, (I've sang the Our Father but not 2/3 of the mass,) in a chanty, nsync (both meanings, the band and the term,) way.

Then it came to the mass itself. The priest gave a fifteen minute introduction to the readings, which I think we began doing at Life Teen for a bit and never continued, but it was nice that he explained the reading's context and such before hearing them. The lectors themselves were a bit too dramatic, and the second reading was from Ephesians5:21-32. It's the reading about the haustafel, or responsibilities btw partners, man and wife. Line 22 says "Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord." The woman reading the passage begins shaking her head in dismay, and the whole church laughs, in the middle of the reading at her action. It was ... it was so annoying! Besides, if she listened to the priest earlier, she would have known that Paul in the end of his letter changes his thoughts about the whole submission, and the passage means to show husbands and wives to have the same respectful, intimate love for each other as Christ has for his Church.

Off the lecture notes, the mass continues and the priest gives his homily and all of a sudden is talking about gay rights and the gay people wanting to be respected, and the priest states that he's not going to give his views, or give any answers. I was shocked, he's speaking for the Church, and the Church has a clear view on the subject and from what I was hearing, it was NOT the one the priest was giving. The priest was almost saying that gay marriage is in the future for America. What?? Sure, but he shouldn't be agreeing. GRR.

Then of course comes communion where the host is pieces of wheat bread. Like a loaf.

As Denise says, "Life is interesting." I don't think I've been living until now.