Snup's View From the Back Pew: Most Sacred Heart

Good Afternoon! I hope every one is having a great July 4 weekend! I went and saw fireworks with a pal and I'm content.

This morning (July 3) I attended the 11 am Mass at Most Sacred Heart in Eureka. The Church was dedicated in 2001. It is very lovely. I was rather confused. There was traditional stained glass (instead of more symbolic stained glass)! There were statues and not just a token statue of Mary! There was a choir loft and the choir was in it (with an organ)!!! I thought it was very lovely inside.

The music was more traditional as well.
Processional: I Heard the Voice of Jesus
Offertory: Be Thou My Vision
Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat
Recessional: Holy God We Praise Thy Name

Father's homily started off with how priests move around a great deal and when he taught at high schools, Father moved around a great deal. At one particular parish, there was a live-in housekeeper, which was quickly becoming a thing of the past. This women fulfilled her duties with a vengeance. Then she got cancer. Because she lived in the rectory, she had nowhere else to go, and a rectory is no place to be sick. When Father went to visit her, there was a beehive of activity around her. She had always been good to others now it was payback time. She was compassionate and was able to accept the compassion of those around her. Then there was talk about a secret shrimp gumbo recipe. Father then connected this story to the Gospel. This Gospel reassures us. Who does not need Jesus to relieve them? (Probably a baseball team with decent relief pitchers....) Father then explained that a yoke was used to tie beasts of burden together to get them to walk in the same direction. Jesus wants us to tie or yoke to Him and to each other.

Father used Eucharistic Prayer III and there were bells. The altar girls wore nice shoes! The white things that go over the cassock were really long, like what seminarians wear long.

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