I agree with you about vigils. I like the Easter and Pentecost vigils because they are their own thing with their own traditions, but the other days don't have that feel to them, at least not anymore. I suppose I could broadly include Midnight Mass for Christmas in there too.
(This reminds me also that our parish is short on servers for t…
I agree with you about vigils. I like the Easter and Pentecost vigils because they are their own thing with their own traditions, but the other days don't have that feel to them, at least not anymore. I suppose I could broadly include Midnight Mass for Christmas in there too.
(This reminds me also that our parish is short on servers for the vigil of All Saints...hmmm...what would a lot of children be doing in the evening hours on October 31, I wonder...)
Children unavailable to serve would be a weekly problem in my parish, since religious ed is between the two middle Masses, and kids tend not to attend the earliest or latest Mass. We just have adult servers, problem solved.
I agree with you about vigils. I like the Easter and Pentecost vigils because they are their own thing with their own traditions, but the other days don't have that feel to them, at least not anymore. I suppose I could broadly include Midnight Mass for Christmas in there too.
(This reminds me also that our parish is short on servers for the vigil of All Saints...hmmm...what would a lot of children be doing in the evening hours on October 31, I wonder...)
Children unavailable to serve would be a weekly problem in my parish, since religious ed is between the two middle Masses, and kids tend not to attend the earliest or latest Mass. We just have adult servers, problem solved.