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.

[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 :-)

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*