Happy Easter! (lots of stuff)
Apr. 4th, 2010 01:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metonomiaMmm. The smell of incense has soaked into my skin, and the sound of 'Alleluia' is ringing in my ears, and I am SO HAPPY right now. The new Dr. Who was FABULOUS (I agree with songsmith that there's something missing with Amy, but I still really like her, and MATT SMITH, God, I have such a fangirl crush going right now. I adore him. He's perfect.), there have been several really really fantastic updates today, Muse yesterday (two days ago, technically, I guess) is still blowing my mind, and did I mention that it's Easter?
This wonderful night/day is my most favorite time of the entire year, for so many reasons that I can scarcely begin to enumerate. The whole Holy Week/Triduum is so lovely and powerful, and it all leads up to the Vigil Mass, the time when I sit in church and am just absolutely astounded by God. The Baptism and Confirmation of the new members of the Church makes me so happy, and here at school it was done with them actually wading into our reflecting pool (which is freezing, and it was raining. lucky them?), and the sense of community was everywhere as the priests joked and the people laughed and we all sang together and crowded around to congratulate the neophytes. The readings! So beautiful. And the moment when the candles are extinguished and we sing the Gloria and turn up the lights just makes my heart soar, as cheesy as that is.
I know the Catholic Church isn't perfect. But on this night, the mother of all nights, the ugliness is stripped away and everything is all beauty and joy and love and hope, and I love it so so much.
And the Easter season's sense of rebirth and hope and joy is for all people, to me, whether Catholic or not, Christian or not, religious or not. That's another of my favorite parts - all our prayers on this night are for everybody, the whole world, for their peace and freedom no matter who they are. BOOM-DE-YADA, is basically all I'm saying, BOOM-DE-YADA Christ-version.
ETA: Oh, and I watched episode 1.1 of Supernatural today while waiting for the Who-link. I'm not sure how I feel about it. A very intriguing show, for sure. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a huge plus, and the boys are definitely adorbs. I have a big problem with it though, and that would be the label 'horror'. I don't do horror. I don't do blood - dude going splodey against the car windows was unacceptable - though I'm getting a bit better with that thanks to Torchwood and the very small amount of True Blood I've watched. The suspense and the cougar bait-ness of the mom and of Jess (JESS. THIS IS ALSO UNACCEPTABLE.) was really difficult for me. The even bigger problem I'm having with it is the fact that I'm already so invested in it. I want to know what happens, and that drive might be strong enough to, with the help of resources which will tell me when to not look at the screen, get me to watch more.
This wonderful night/day is my most favorite time of the entire year, for so many reasons that I can scarcely begin to enumerate. The whole Holy Week/Triduum is so lovely and powerful, and it all leads up to the Vigil Mass, the time when I sit in church and am just absolutely astounded by God. The Baptism and Confirmation of the new members of the Church makes me so happy, and here at school it was done with them actually wading into our reflecting pool (which is freezing, and it was raining. lucky them?), and the sense of community was everywhere as the priests joked and the people laughed and we all sang together and crowded around to congratulate the neophytes. The readings! So beautiful. And the moment when the candles are extinguished and we sing the Gloria and turn up the lights just makes my heart soar, as cheesy as that is.
I know the Catholic Church isn't perfect. But on this night, the mother of all nights, the ugliness is stripped away and everything is all beauty and joy and love and hope, and I love it so so much.
And the Easter season's sense of rebirth and hope and joy is for all people, to me, whether Catholic or not, Christian or not, religious or not. That's another of my favorite parts - all our prayers on this night are for everybody, the whole world, for their peace and freedom no matter who they are. BOOM-DE-YADA, is basically all I'm saying, BOOM-DE-YADA Christ-version.
ETA: Oh, and I watched episode 1.1 of Supernatural today while waiting for the Who-link. I'm not sure how I feel about it. A very intriguing show, for sure. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a huge plus, and the boys are definitely adorbs. I have a big problem with it though, and that would be the label 'horror'. I don't do horror. I don't do blood - dude going splodey against the car windows was unacceptable - though I'm getting a bit better with that thanks to Torchwood and the very small amount of True Blood I've watched. The suspense and the cougar bait-ness of the mom and of Jess (JESS. THIS IS ALSO UNACCEPTABLE.) was really difficult for me. The even bigger problem I'm having with it is the fact that I'm already so invested in it. I want to know what happens, and that drive might be strong enough to, with the help of resources which will tell me when to not look at the screen, get me to watch more.
