Hello, GW students! I’m Fr. Greg, the chaplain of the Newman Center . This site is a forum for GW students to ask ANY (appropriate) questions about the Catholic faith, related or unrelated to my posts. All comments have to meet my approval before they are posted. I'm sorry for the approval process and I thank you for your patience and understanding. Thanks, and may you know the peace of Christ!
You've got to give Catherine credit for her "tea kettle" analogy. It certainly is a much more appropriate term than what we called the thurible when we were kids and attended Easter's midnight mass at my grandmother's Russian Orthodox church. The grandkids all called the thurible the "Kabonger". We'd pray that we wouldn't turn green as the smoke and smell of incense rose to the balcony area where we all sat. If we made it to the end of mass, we'd all go outside for a whiff of fresh air and consider the evening a success (as did our parents!)
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I hope he's ready for my 10yo's questions. A sampling of those directed at Fr Mike and Fr Andrew:
Why are there 14 Stations of the Cross and why are there 3 stations for Jesus falling down
Why do you say that the bread becomes the Body AND the Blood of Christ when the bread is the Body and the wine is the Blood?
How come there has to be smoke from the tea-kettle thing up front
Why are there Bible verses with all of the mysteries on the Rosary except for the Assumption of Mary? And how did her whole self GET to heaven?
What is Spy Wednesday [Fr A: You finally got me with THAT one]
Cynthia-
You've got to give Catherine credit for her "tea kettle" analogy. It certainly is a much more appropriate term than what we called the thurible when we were kids and attended Easter's midnight mass at my grandmother's Russian Orthodox church. The grandkids all called the thurible the "Kabonger". We'd pray that we wouldn't turn green as the smoke and smell of incense rose to the balcony area where we all sat. If we made it to the end of mass, we'd all go outside for a whiff of fresh air and consider the evening a success (as did our parents!)
I used to have "thurible" in my vocabulary but once Catherine called it a Tea Kettle Thing I've thought of it that way ever since.
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