Postcards from the Pews: If You Get Yourself to Mass, You Never Quite Know What Will Hit You
O'Connell-Cahill, Catherine, U.S. Catholic
MY DAUGHTER STANDS AT THE BACK OF CHURCH just before Mass, the tallest of the altar servers this year. She holds the processional cross, 6 feet long. Looking up, vigilant not to bang it on the low-hanging balcony, she hoists it far overhead and steps into the aisle. The figure of me man on me cross precedes them all: children in white carrying candles, lectors, priest. It happens every week, but today it stops me: We hold up an image of a man dying in agony and entrust it to the hands of the young.
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She carries the man on the cross to the front of church, turning him to face us. Over her head, above the sanctuary, are words from Psalm 43 …
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Publication information:
Article title: Postcards from the Pews: If You Get Yourself to Mass, You Never Quite Know What Will Hit You.
Contributors: O'Connell-Cahill, Catherine - Author.
Magazine title: U.S. Catholic.
Volume: 76.
Issue: 1
Publication date: January 2011.
Page number: 49.
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