I went to a Mercy Sunday Event yesterday. It started at around 2:30 with the youth in the church hall. First we learnt how to pray the Mercy Chaplet, then we headed over to the church to sing the Mercy Chaplet. Then we had Adoration with Confession followed by Benediction. This took about an hour and a half, then we went back to the church hall for social time. There were cookies and apples with dip as snacks but we also played "Apples to Apples" for about two hours. There were a couple adults with about eight youth playing the game. We had a lot of fun!
Mercy Sunday: First I went to mass at my local parish where we were celebrating the elevation of our late pastor to Monsignor. The line to talk to him afterward was massive. It took at least an hour before my sisters and I even bothered to get in it! Then it took us half an hour to get to him. There was food and people a plenty, no one was hungry really after that.
Soon after we came home from that, we left for Castleton for the Mercy Sunday even. When we got there, the priest explained to us how to pray the Mercy Chaplet on our rosaries. Soon it was 3 o'clock and time for us to head over to the church. We all knelt in the pews and sang it in front of Jesus exposed in the monstrance. Then we had two priests hearing confessions in the back while others could sit or kneel for adoration.
Shortly after the confessions were done, we did Benediction. After that, (I can't remember what time it was...) the youth and their chaperones went to the church hall next to the church for social time. First we all just talked and ate cookies and apples with really really good dip. The we got bored, but instead of leaving we brought out "Apples to Apples"! Always a good game. Especially when everyone has a good sense of humor!
Over all, a really good time. I was so glad to be having fun with those God loving people.
My parents were off in Ohio at that time visiting a Apparition Site called "Holy Love". I will talk more about that at another time.
In the mean time, God Bless!
No comments:
Post a Comment