Faith used to be a set menu with very limited choices. Perhaps to survive, and to give people what they need, it needs to become a buffet
I was raised in a liberal household, with an atheist mother , and a not-quite-fully lapsed Catholic father, still carrying the weight of his generation’s relationship with the church. He would bring us to Mass every other week, with the implicit understanding that there would be sweets afterwards. We’d buy into transubstantiation once it also turned small change into two packets of Munchies and a Pyramint.
‘There are times I regret having kids. They’re adults, and it’s now that I’m regretting it, which seems strange’ At a remembrance Mass, the church was packed with people who’d also lost someone that year, and I’ve never felt a solidarity like it I became great friends with a priest many years ago who made me think it could. He told me that if anyone found comfort in his church, whether they were squeezing into a packed pew just once a year on Christmas Day, or hearing the refrains weekly, then that was okay with him. He said once the intentions were good, all were welcome.
As I walked down the aisle, clinging to my father’s arm, it struck me how like my wedding day the mechanics of the ritual were, with all the smiling faces of people who care about you. Except these were the sad, muted smiles of kind people expressing empathy and concern . The following November, we attended a remembrance Mass. The church was packed with people who’d also lost someone that year, and I’ve never felt a solidarity like it.
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