Traditions and Sacraments

i just deleted this entire chunk of my post because i can’t express myself properly. and i’m feeling very insecure now cause i just read this girl’s blog. and her english is so good that i have to guess the meaning of the words on her blog cause i’ve never seen them before.

anyway, holy week’s over, and i’m kindda sad. cause i really really like holy week. it’s the time of the year that i most look forward to. wayyyy more than chinese new year, cause what i do for CNY is basically just sit around, eat eat eat and talk and eat eat eat and collect angpows.

basically holy week goes like this:

palm sunday

penitential services around the world – went to st vincent de paul this time round

maundy thursday – went for chrism mass for the first time in my life at st bernadette. was really cool to see like all the priests in singapore, blessing of oils and all. after that was the maundy thurs mass, last supper, transfer of eucharist. went visitation after that, something like what the people in the past used to do, pilgrimage sort of thing. this year no car, no van to fetch me around, so basically just took public transport, and only managed to go to 2 churches, st teresa (so does teresa have H or not?) and st mary’s of the angels. stayed at st mary’s for the office of tenebrae at midnight. but left halfway cause needed to go home.

good friday – fast and abstinence (haha tried to follow but oh well.), went for good friday service this year at olps, can’t believe we were half an hour early, and there’s no place to sit?!?! ): the reproaches was amazingly touching. ):

holy sat – went to nativity for easter vigil. haha long story.

easter sun – went to risen christ for feastday mass. and sizzlers after that (:

felt really strongly for religion this time round. no idea why. gosh, in this week alone i went to like 8 churches. something i really really like about the catholic church is that the order of mass around the world is the same. even if it’s in a diff language, i’d still be able to follow and know what’s happening (that was the case for taiwan, where it was in chinese omg. my chi really sucks now). and that all the sacraments and all hold so much meaning. i don’t get why some christian church out there will actually have an easter musical on good friday. of course we rejoice that he rose from the dead. but if he didn’t die, how do we rejoice?!?! that’s something i really dont get.

and i think faith is not only about following what scripture says, but also bout the sacraments and all. another thing i dont get is that… (ok nevermind too sensitive to be put up here).

sigh. i can never blog properly like this. ):

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