is Church what its really supposed to be?
03/10/2002 06:54 p.m.

I just got home from church (Catholic, that is) and I'm beginning to wonder if this religion is all that its cracked up to be. Now, I know I have several friends that read this, and will wonder what's gotten in to me, but I definately found this to be an interesting revelation for me. Now, on to my story...

I'm sitting in church and the priest is up there reading a quote (at least I think that's what it is) from the lectionary. It's a long one and then it gets me thinking. Why should a priest have to read a quote that gives us an example of something Jesus did, when we can just read it in the bible if we wanted to? And on top of that, after reading the quote, he stands there and explains it to us, as if we couldn't figure out on our own what the example is saying. Children I can understand not getting the gist of what the priest is saying, but then they should ask an adult they trust to what it means. I also started to begin wondering what they put in the "body" (bread). How do we know what they actually put in it? Now to end this thoughfulness on the Catholic mass... I have a very active imagination, and some times it runs away with me... Well, today in church, I had a flash of an image that the priest (who was standing behind the alter with his hands outstretched) was the devil, and then the ushers, who are kind of like line leaders in elementry school and let us out of the pews row by row, kind of looked like his minions, along with the people that help the priest up by the alter. I just thought I might share this with the rest of the world.