We attended evening mass on Saturday and there were four priests — three Filipinos and one Taiwanese, who didn’t laugh at jokes by a dark-skinned, short-necked celebrant, who started his sermon by mentioning “international accents.
Next, he explained Advent and the preparation of the coming of Christ, end times in 2012 or whatever. He then fingered the wreath and pointed out that it won’t wither because it was plastic, and how one of four candle was pink because they ran out of purple ones.
He took his sermon to describe preparations for Christmas. In some Filipino households, Christmas trees are put up on November 1st and taken down around the first Sunday of January or February or stayed up for the next year.
He suggested that Christmas presents are exchanged with a knife set given to mother-in-laws. This means that in-laws don’t get along. I am not surprised.
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I took notes around 11:09 and 11:13am.
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