{"id":1122,"date":"2016-07-26T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T10:47:38","slug":"mass-tourism-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/26\/mass-tourism-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Tourism V"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visiting Our Lady of the Seas again in the Outer Banks, the place of the first Mass Tourism<\/a> post. In terms of architecture, the building has a nice simplicity to it with a wooden interior and a beautiful view of the sound above the altar. \u00a0It’s stained glass and theme on things related to the beach is a bit much, almost as if it were a vacation rental—which in some ways it is.<\/p>\n

The last time I came was on the Saturday vigil, probably during the off season. It was way less formal than that which I am accustomed but I was expecting it to be. This time was on a Sunday morning and I found the church to be packed with people, likely from out of town looking at the license plates in the parking lot. With black jeans and red collared oxford shirt, I was possibly over dressed given that the standard was shorts, t-shirts, and tennis shoes.<\/p>\n

Two things made me cringe: the women in front of me taking flash photos of the front during the Mass—no shame, no reverence; I exhaled audibly in exasperation to get my subtle message across. The second was when the priest was preaching the homily using a telephone as a prop for his message on prayer. Not that I object to the visual except that he placed it on the altar as if it were his office desk. \u00a0For those who don’t know, the altar is suppose to be a sacred object consecrated and sometimes holding the relics of the patron saint of the church–(although this one had a crashing wave theme to it which made it hard to take too seriously–still.)<\/p>\n

I was thinking of\u00a0retaliating as an orthodox “troll”, and say all the responsorials in Latin really loud so that everyone around me could hear and be totally annoyed.<\/p>\n

Ite Missa Est.<\/p>\n

Deo Gratias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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