Saturday afternoon, we decided to go to a local church for 4 o'clock Mass, as a family!!!!! Everyone loaded in the car and ready to go.
Something kept nagging at me. I KNEW something was going on, but darned if I could remember what it was about this parish this weekend.
No. We're good. Keep going.
We literally got within 500 feet of ABVM parish and I remembered what was so important about this Saturday. CONFIRMATION!!!!!!!! With THE Bishop, not just A Bishop.
Ugh.... Momentary panic. Do we go? Can the kids handle it? They had about 25 people getting confirmed during Mass. They would really learn something. I would get shivers watching them receive the Holy Spirit.
The state of the parking lot and the local streets decided it for us. Church easily holds 400+ people and it was GOING TO BE PACKED. No way were we going to get through Mass without a toddler meltdown and probably of Epic Proportions.
Saturday Vigil at our home parish is a no go, because we don't have Mass until 7 p.m., which is better than it used to be at 8 p.m. However, my kiddos would never be able to stand that. And with the time change, going to Mass today would have been over snack time - which is never a good thing to interrupt.
So, I'm giving us an "A" for effort for trying to get to Mass this weekend.
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