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One Day In A Church

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

I took a glance to notice some people seating next to me before the priest in the church gave the opening speech to start the mass. For some reason I like doing that way in a public place to get curious what kind of people they are. I know I could get wrong about those people just giving them a short notice without knowing them very well but I do enjoy making up their story in my own version.


In the church I sat side by side with the same old lady whom I ever met some weeks ago and whom I remember she greeted us very nice when we exchange a sign of peace. Back then she took a time to speak shortly to my hubby at the end of the mass saying "I really appreciate you come and respect to our church". It's surprising me that she knows my hubby is not a Catholic. This time she didn't speak any word but giving a sign of peace to me. Anyhow, I could feel a real peace from her warm-nice-soft greeting when she said "Peace be with you". I know some people do this way only because of the church tradition but she is different. I imagined how wonderful would be if we could be a friend someday, or we treat each other like mom like daughter.




There was a guy sat one row in front of me wearing a t-shirt "One Nation Under God". I said to myself "Hhmm..nice words. Then I started to notice him, his look, his character and attitudes. He looks like Asian, either Filipino or Vietnamese. I bet he is single because he has no wedding band in the finger but he has a big black rock in one of his fingers. He didn't give attention to the priest and neither did to the today's speech. He kept looking around other people, turning his head left and right many times, and did the same way even when we had to stand and sing. He was annoying me at this point that I couldn't focus myself on the priest's preach and I couldn't see very well the ceremony done in the altar. Seemed he was looking for someone he knows or he might do it to seek any single woman whom he expects to approach for his prospect. I don't care though, none of my business anyway!



Another people I gave a little attention was a black family, parents with a daughter and a son, who usually dressed up very nice. Sometimes the father and the son wore the suit that is not common to see in such a small Catholic church. It brings me up to thinking how much different the dress code between the Catholic church and the Baptist church, another church we attend every other Sunday. Most of people in a Catholic church wear a casual clothes for some reason, while people in a Baptist church are supposed to wear a very nice outfit. I don't know what the history behind this etiquette. One thing for sure is I got to wear the clothes in a different way to adjust myself in a different church. Back to my object... I noticed that the lady of the family didn't treat her hairdo very well as usual. She just pulled up the hair and tied it up with a hairpiece. Every other week she usually had a nice hairdo that looked she has used hair dryer to make it straight and wavy at the bottom. This time, I guess, she didn't have enough time to do the hair or she might have been lazy or bored to have the same hairdo.



At the time the priest was ready to read the holy Gospel, there was a (Korean or Chinese) grandma came in the middle of the crowd to looking for an empty seat. She didn't care when the priest was suddenly quiet and calm to let the busy grandma asked her grandchildren to have seats together. After the Gospel reading and the preach and during the liturgy of the eucharist, another woman with two daughters walked to the front seat and sat down in empty seats without giving attention to the surroundings. She didn't know that some people looked at them because her daughters' metal purse was making a sound and annoying people's concentration to the ceremony. I asked to myself "Why this people were so late and came up almost at the end of the mass? Don't they have a clock?



Regardless those annoying condition, I did enjoy last Sunday's mass. I was surprised that this time I could do a dialogue very well without taking a look at the handbook except the profession of faith or the nicene creed which has a long long statement and is hard to me to remember word by word. I think I need another few years to memorize those statements well and put sticky into my mind. Well, don't give up..Keep working on it!