holy day of obligation, batman

[fearlesstemp]

Today is Ash Wednesday and I have not gone to mass. Despite general lapsed-ness of my Catholoc-ness, the power of Catholic Guilt remains. And Ash Wednesday is by far the most guiltastic Holy Day of Obligation because should one not go to mass, one must then spend the whole day spotting people with proud ash marks on their foreheads. Whenever I do, I always feel like they, in turn, can tell that I am Catholic and since I clearly have not gone, they think less of me, when really, since I do not wear a nun's habit or any other identifying Catholic markers (unless you count the Grimace of Guilt), there's no way they could know. Behold the power of Catholic Guilt.

Perhaps I could go after work. There must be a nighttime mass somewhere.

Comments

[kaelie.livejournal.com]

All due respect to the holy days of obligation (and right there with ya on the guilt thing), so I will be a good BT and not dump a double whammy of guilt on you by reminding you of the fact that Tuesday was yesterday and I WANT MORE AU. :) See how good I'm being? Not nagging? See?

:)

Just teasing you, dude. You know that.

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

hahaha! Not nagging at ALL! Though I deserve it, considering the number of frantic, annoying e-mails and IMs you've received from me about a certain other AU.... :)

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

well, I haven't gone yet either, because I'm shooting nights right now. I'm going to go this afternoon. You definitely haven't missed your chance yet :-)

on the other hand, if you don't do it, undoubtedly God will forgive you :-)

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

well, I haven't gone yet either, because I'm shooting nights right now.

That's right! Your cool exciting job! Did I congratulate you? Because I meant to. Congrats if I didn't! I hope you're enjoying it. If nothing else, it sounds so incredibly cool -- I want to have a job where I can say I'm "shooting nights" instead of "wasting my time typing up Health Care Proxies".



on the other hand, if you don't do it, undoubtedly God will forgive you :-)

It's good to get reassurance on this since I was lame and lazy and didn't make it to church tonight. I had to work late! And the parking garage was totally backed up and so I was even later leaving there! God understands about backed-up parking garages and demanding attorney bosses, right? I have a feeling S/He, in His/Her infinite wisdom, does. Or at least I choose to believe that. :)

So over the catholic guilt thing

[msizzabella.livejournal.com]

Of course, I had a lot of help from the Church on that one. Plus nothing spits in the eye of Catholicism quite like having your big bro perform your marriage ceremony, with all the power of an ad from the back of Rolling Stone behind him. *snark*

Re: So over the catholic guilt thing

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Ha! That is so awesome about your brother! I love it! You are so cool. I want to be over The Guilt like you! Maybe someday... :)