Well after I didn’t consider myself Catholic any more, I’d come back for Christmas vigil mass to sing through the candlelit night with my choir friends. (If the priest noticed the tenor and the alto swapping parts, he kept his mouth shut about it.)
Look, I no longer consider myself Catholic, but the accessorizing & chants & the incense are fucking cool as hell, and the pictures from our wedding at an old school Chicago Catholic Church? Your girl was LIVING
Oh my god that’s incredible. See this is why Conclave spoke to my soul. It’s just a bunch of bitchy gossips & neurotics who love sitting around talking shit and wearing incredible clothes in beautiful settings.
I was raised on the Latin and the incense. I didn’t appreciate it until my parents’ funeral masses, which featured the most anemic, insipid modern catholic “music.” I felt bad that they weren’t sent out with the awe-inspiring classics that they loved.
And do not even get me started with the call and response stuff. I went to a Catholic school for a little while and only just got the hang of "and also with you" after "peace be with you" but the rest? No clue.
I still know the call and response stuff from school. 😂 Even tho I never participated! I used to read the programs out of sheer boredom since I got in trouble if they caught me with a book
They changed it all up a couple of years ago and now you can tell the lapsed people back for a wedding or whatever because they still have the old reflexes. It’s a problem!
Yep, I converted away ages ago and now on the rare occasions I go to mass with my mom I feel like I stepped into a weird not-quite-right parallel universe.
That stuff was also automatic that my siblings and I didn’t even think about it. We actually used to get annoyed at priests that would not say the words the exact same way every time. We called one guy “father ad lib.” We were such a little demons.
You could always tell the non-Catholics in the congregation- always at least a couple beats behind the crowd with the up/down and either mumbling through the call/response or looking confused.
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Okay, well, I'm still a SUCKER for Gregorian chants.
And a good Gothic Cathedral! 😂
When I was going to school in Austria, this was where we had mass. (since the school was in the building. Lol)
You gotta admit, it isn't subtle. 😂
So much icon kissing and genuflecting!