Over the last few weeks, a woman has deliberately walked into church in the middle of Mass. No, she wasn't late in the true meaning of the word as she didn't seem to be coming for the purposes of attending Mass. She comes walking down the side aisle right to the front of the church, lights a votive candle or two, stands in prayer before the Blessed Mother, and then leaves. Not only is she a bit intrusive on the solemnity of the Mass, you have to wonder if she understands that if she is in need of immediately contact with God on a close and personal level, she has been walking right past Him in the celebration of the Mass. Very bewildering that she doesn't understand the layers of prayer and devotion available and totally ignores a Mass in progress.
A second part of this is the fact that we now have votive candles that aren't even 'real'! By real, I mean they are not candles requiring a match to light them. Nope, pop in your quarter and you get something like 15 minutes of flickering electric light. Someone once said that come the End Times, the only light in the world will be in the sanctuaries of our churches. I always have to wonder if that include electric candles, too?
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