Things are looking up

Someone read my blog! Sparki is the first person to actually post a comment, the first to admit publicly that she's read it. Thank you. To see the story that fit the search criteria "Catholic, parenting" and got me in touch with Sparki, see fonticulus fides.

Well things are looking up. I have an appointment with the priest after the 9 am Mass Sunday and someone from the liturgical committee will watch my son. I really don't want to confess in front of my son, especially when we will be talking about him as he is proof of my sinfulness. I've decided to write my sins down before I go so as not to waste too much of the priest's, or the wonderful volunteer's, time. I'm a little concerned about the length of the Palm Sunday Mass as compared with the attention span of a 3-year-old. It was a bit longer this last weekend and he was incredibly restless by the Eucharist. When I tried to explain what was going on he pointed to the sky and said "God is up there!" When I tried to explain the bread and wine become body and blood he started to whimper the idea was so horrible. Small children and non-Catholics don't understand the Eucharist, "You Swallow the Leader?"

On Catholic Answers Live (see yesterday's entry) this week they were talking about confession and someone mentioned that no one ever confesses to gluttony but most of us are guilty of it. Of course few of us hearty folks are heartily sorry for that extra piece of cake or the pint of Haagen-Dazs we ate in one sitting because we were upset or worse yet bored. The sins we confess before we go in for bypass surgery (heart or gastric) may finally include gluttony. With this deadly sin in mind I decided to look up what the rest were, I could remember/guess most of them but not all. See Deadly Sins.com. After thinking about it I'm guilty of all of these at one time or another in varying degrees.

Another reason things are looking up, I got an email from someone who read the profile I posted on a dating service. My son said I should find love on the computer after seeing an ad on TV at Christmas time. I've procrastinated for months and finally
signed up afewe weeks ago. This is the first time anyone has shown any interest.

As for the suburb question Sparki raised we are in Hoffman Estates and go to St Hubert's, when we go. We have been to St. Matthew's in Schaumburg but I didn't like the church layout/set up too round-barn-like for my tastes. They have a wonderful stations of the cross though and I hope to get over there next Friday -- going to see if I can swing a long lunch.