Actual Catholic aesthetics

girlfrommarial:

• Large families attempting to fit into pews too small for them
• Altar boys who can barely see over the altar
• Accidently lighting your candle holder on fire because the Easter Vigil is so long
• Tripping over your maxi skirt/cassock/habit
• Genuflecting with the wrong leg 
• Falling asleep in adoration
• Knowing the tune of the Latin hymns, but not quite the words yet
• Conversely, responding in Latin to prayers in any other language 
• Tangled rosaries, scapulars, and headphones
• 15 passenger vans
• Wishing others a happy new year on the first Sunday of Advent
• Finding a restaurant to eat at that fits everyone’s Lenten penances
• Being dragged by Saints who lived 100, 500, or even 1600 years ago
• Getting accused of being morbid
• But memento mori!
• “Discovering” something that has been around for at least a few hundred years
• Youth/young adults: “We want tradition!” Boomers: “See, the youth today want guitar music!”
• Giving dirty looks to the adults (who should know better) who are having a conversation before- or even worse during– Mass
• Falling asleep while kneeling
• That resigned look while defending large families
• Freaking out about your vocation
• Having so many godchildren
• Retreat highs
• The same people in all the liturgical ministries each week
• Coming up with nicknames for people you see at Mass
• Coffee and donuts in the hall after Mass
• “Pope St. John Paul II was the original hipster!”
• Going to confession like the sorrowful sad sinner you are
• Receiving communion reverently
• Living the sacramental life