I have ADHD! I only understand the concept of time as "now" and "not now". Brother, do you know how much Adderall I need to experience "Ordinary Time?!?"
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I literally just show up to church with a vague understanding of where we are in the calendar and go “oh that’s nice”
aug 1, 2025, 3:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Church... calendar?
aug 1, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
so the priest knows which vestments to wear
aug 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
We don't have priests and vestments, we have a preacher in a suit, unless it's one of those weird liberal churches where the preacher doesn't wear a tie
aug 1, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
where's the fun in that?!
aug 1, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
As I've been told multiple times in my life, "the church is not a social club." It's not supposed to be fun, it's church.
aug 1, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
tired: counting from one and going up wired: counting from zero and going up (divinely) inspired:
aug 1, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
What is this, the First Church of Time-Cube?
aug 1, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
learning about the church of christ made my mother's quiet, staid presbyterianism (good guys - USA - not bad guys - PCA) seem boisterous by comparison. i feel re: spiritual practice like i do about most things - most parts of life should bring comfort and joy to counterbalance sorrow/struggle.
aug 1, 2025, 3:40 pm • 3 0 • view
As a child I was scolded for using hymnals to make a barn for my toy tractors while playing silently in our pew during the sermon That was the moment where I learned I was expected to sit quietly and pay attention in all aspects of life
aug 1, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
... oof, friend. that is... i struggle to find words for things like that. i am glad things are different for you now, that's for sure. ❤️
aug 1, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
It's borderline abusive, is what it is. And I've struggled with that. But yeah, things are much better now and my children are NOT living that life.
aug 1, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 0 • view
pretty much. your quality as a child was determined by how long you could sit still and shut up
aug 1, 2025, 3:44 pm • 3 0 • view
"Children are to be seen and not heard." Said to me more than once by a parent.
aug 1, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
In Cub Scouts, some were told off after giving a high five as a sign of peace. That was a fun morning.
aug 1, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. My church/liturgical calendar is “is there church?” and “is it a holiday?” and everything else is for the pastors to know and me to maybe remember
aug 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, we didn't do any of that, the only "calendar" was "is it Sunday or Wednesday?" The closest we came to a "holiday" was a special Wednesday night singing service the night before Thanksgiving that we'd do a meal with The church of Christ doesn't recognize Easter or Christmas as special days
aug 1, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah, my fundamentalist secret southern baptist churches never did any of this stuff, so it's like a fun surprise for me every week. "oh it's epiphany, that's neat!"
aug 1, 2025, 3:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I went to a Baptist church VBS up the street from my church (because most of my friends were Baptist and went there) and it felt wrong and strange and weird that there was a piano and a "Christian flag"
aug 1, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
My wife's old church for some period of its history got away from accompaniment for music, not because accompaniment was itself bad, but because it was too hard to find pianists who didn't also play at dances or in drinking establishments.
aug 1, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I've witnessed deep theological debates about whether a pitch-pipe constitutes an "instrument"
aug 1, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
that’s basically what this is too the clergy uses it to determine what color vestments to use and plan Scripture readings and hymns, but for the layperson, it’s just “is this Sunday in some way special, Y/N”
aug 1, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
my church does one 9:30 AM service with music and limited chanting during Ordinary Time, and an 8:30 AM service with no music or chanting and a 10:45 AM service with all the bells and whistles the rest of the year, but idk if this is standard practice
aug 1, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view