Peace At Last

priestmisha:

A restaurant has servers that work.

He suffered a fatal heart attack and died. He was 19 years old. I’m not saying it’s not sad, it’s shocking to think that anyone so young could lose their life from something you hear about old people getting. But does every person on the face of the planet have to feel extremely sorry about what happened?

Not to bash on the dead, but the kid was a heavy drinker and drug user, he was always screwing up and around, and he acted like a complete asshole 99% of the time. Half the people in the school wouldn’t think twice of talking to him because he just wouldn’t respond. And now that he’s dead all of a sudden everyone’s a friend of his, everyone’s so sad to see him go…

I could care less. If it wasn’t this, it would’ve been a drunk driving accident, a drug overdose, plain stupidity that killed him. People need to get over themselves. People die. It’s a fact. Stop moping.

My family has participated in the Roman Catholic branch of the Christian faith for as long as I could remember. I have just recently gotten out of the practice, being away from my house and in college. Because I’m not there, one person isn’t going, my family feels like everyone can blow it off except on holidays. Like Christmas Eve midnight mass.

Little did I know that as of November 27, certain prayers, sayings, and ceremonies in my church were REWORDED. For a reason that nobody can understand. And for anyone that knows about the Roman Catholic church and the proceedings of masses, you can understand why it’s such a big deal.

I spent 18 years of my life memorizing prayers, I went to Catholic school for 3 years. I had the whole sermon down pat, nothing could escape me. Then this crap happens. I mean seriously, who orders the rewording of a prayer that’s over 30 lines long? I’m pretty sure they even messed with the Lord’s Prayer, the grand daddy of all prayers! You can’t just throw something like that out the window and reword it cause you think it sounds better…

Anyway, I’m going to write to the Pope and tell him how upset I am that all this has changed. I might not be that good of a Christian, but I would like to be able to go to mass and know what prayers I’m supposed to say.