Happy Easter
Apr. 8th, 2012 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
localfreakHappy Easter to all!
The euphoria is well-founded considering how excellently the servers coped considering none of us had much of an idea what was going on and no time at all with which to formulate any real sort of plan. But we survived and it looked good and nothing went disasterously wrong. Although I confess to being shocked at "heathens" at the back. During communion I took the jug of new holy water down to fill the empty stoops and I was truly FOLLOWED by people as they hurried to dunk a hand into the water and get out of church! Mass wasn't finished! One woman actually asked me, "Where do we get bottles of the holy water that Father mentions?" and I just blinked at her and explained th water was in the font at the front and she could collect some after Mass- to which she gave a look of disdain and left.
I do not usually encounter the "heathens", as they are called. Being a server means I am up at the front from before most people arrive and we do not usually come down to the back to the end procession. I know that some people do leave before the final prayer- certainly I hear the tuttings-over of that kind of behaviour (except of course when there is good reason) but to witness people actually fleeing as if to say "We came, we got, quick splash of the water and we're clear" was quite shocking.
Anyway it was all okay and we survived, dripping from holy water and my nerves jangling like taught strings but all is good and lovely and happy and yay.
Now I'm going to slope tentatively off into a quiet corner where looming deadlines terrify me into inertia. I may also take my modest collection of chocolate eggs with me for company.
The euphoria is well-founded considering how excellently the servers coped considering none of us had much of an idea what was going on and no time at all with which to formulate any real sort of plan. But we survived and it looked good and nothing went disasterously wrong. Although I confess to being shocked at "heathens" at the back. During communion I took the jug of new holy water down to fill the empty stoops and I was truly FOLLOWED by people as they hurried to dunk a hand into the water and get out of church! Mass wasn't finished! One woman actually asked me, "Where do we get bottles of the holy water that Father mentions?" and I just blinked at her and explained th water was in the font at the front and she could collect some after Mass- to which she gave a look of disdain and left.
I do not usually encounter the "heathens", as they are called. Being a server means I am up at the front from before most people arrive and we do not usually come down to the back to the end procession. I know that some people do leave before the final prayer- certainly I hear the tuttings-over of that kind of behaviour (except of course when there is good reason) but to witness people actually fleeing as if to say "We came, we got, quick splash of the water and we're clear" was quite shocking.
Anyway it was all okay and we survived, dripping from holy water and my nerves jangling like taught strings but all is good and lovely and happy and yay.
Now I'm going to slope tentatively off into a quiet corner where looming deadlines terrify me into inertia. I may also take my modest collection of chocolate eggs with me for company.
