Comments on: Religious Holidays http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/ Reflections Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Zach http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-8764 Zach Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:53:45 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/#comment-8764 Definitely a lot of cheese. Definitely a lot of cheese.

]]> By: Trevor Harden http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-8762 Trevor Harden Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:42:46 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/#comment-8762 Dude. I feel your pain/frustration. This is one of the reasons I'm leaving my "worship director" job. I think "The Church" can be a fine, positive and loving place - but there sure can be a lot of silly, shallow "show" to the whole ordeal. Sometimes the leadership is trying way too hard. And easter can be a good time to amp up the Cheese. Dude. I feel your pain/frustration. This is one of the reasons I’m leaving my “worship director” job. I think “The Church” can be a fine, positive and loving place – but there sure can be a lot of silly, shallow “show” to the whole ordeal. Sometimes the leadership is trying way too hard. And easter can be a good time to amp up the Cheese.

]]> By: isaiah http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-8751 isaiah Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:56:11 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/#comment-8751 quit mincing words and tell us how you really feel! quit mincing words and tell us how you really feel!

]]> By: Zach http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-8748 Zach Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:19:25 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/#comment-8748 Agreed. Agreed.

]]> By: Nate Greene http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-8747 Nate Greene Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:55:27 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/#comment-8747 Dude, I gave up on organized religion. You don't need to be a part of a church to be religous. You are 100% correct, they don't exist, and they all do the exact same thing every single week. I think churches are over crowded on holidays because that is when non believers feel obligated to go to church. Why, I have no idea. FYI hypocrisy is the biggest reason i left the church amongst a few other things. "hell no, we won't go!" hahahaha Dude, I gave up on organized religion. You don’t need to be a part of a church to be religous.
You are 100% correct, they don’t exist, and they all do the exact same thing every single week. I think churches are over crowded on holidays because that is when non believers feel obligated to go to church. Why, I have no idea. FYI hypocrisy is the biggest reason i left the church amongst a few other things. “hell no, we won’t go!” hahahaha

]]> By: Jon http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-8729 Jon Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:27:47 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2008/03/16/religious-holidays/#comment-8729 I definitely know what you mean about lameness due to the holidays. However, I've neever once been disappointed by an Easter Vigil Mass in the Catholic Church. It's a fusion of celebrations... not just the resurrection. It takes place the night before Easter Sunday. The service begins outside the church with lighting the Easter fire, and the proclamation of one of the wildest praises in Christianity, the "Exultet", later, there's a procession into a completely dark church, with everyone bearing candles... 6-7 Scripture readings are proclaimed, starting from Genesis 1, going through the Old Testament prophetic messages of redemption and liberation. Each one (in churches that don't cut it short) has it's own Psalm response. After the Gospel reading, new members are brought into the church... some are baptized all are confirmed.. They've been preparing for this moment for eight months to a year, sometimes longer. The whole congregation then renews their baptismal promises. The church is now filled with light. A sermon follows, but it's usually very short... it's understood that the images, rites, and symbols communicate far more than the priest can with words. After that, the neophytes celebrate their first communion, and the rest of the congregation follows. Sometimes it's more than frimmin'... It can be... devastating! I definitely know what you mean about lameness due to the holidays. However, I’ve neever once been disappointed by an Easter Vigil Mass in the Catholic Church.

It’s a fusion of celebrations… not just the resurrection. It takes place the night before Easter Sunday. The service begins outside the church with lighting the Easter fire, and the proclamation of one of the wildest praises in Christianity, the “Exultet”, later, there’s a procession into a completely dark church, with everyone bearing candles… 6-7 Scripture readings are proclaimed, starting from Genesis 1, going through the Old Testament prophetic messages of redemption and liberation. Each one (in churches that don’t cut it short) has it’s own Psalm response. After the Gospel reading, new members are brought into the church… some are baptized all are confirmed.. They’ve been preparing for this moment for eight months to a year, sometimes longer. The whole congregation then renews their baptismal promises. The church is now filled with light.

A sermon follows, but it’s usually very short… it’s understood that the images, rites, and symbols communicate far more than the priest can with words. After that, the neophytes celebrate their first communion, and the rest of the congregation follows.

Sometimes it’s more than frimmin’… It can be… devastating!

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