Welcome to the Family
I never really liked this song, even when we sang it in SJI to welcome the new batch of sec 1s, but today, as we sang it after the baptism of a friend's daughter, the song moved me, and not by just a little bit.
It wasn't so much that she was baptised and now one of us, but more the idea of a group of friends and family, welcoming someone to something that means so much to all of us. Maybe SJI never really meant that much to me. *shrug*
So i came home with a song in my head and i did some research for a sharing i have to do in a week's time, and then my mood fell, cos as i was searching for articles on why we do what we do during the mass, i stumbled upon very well intentioned writers. But their intention was moot when the implication was just that we were wrong. I suppose i know that's how some feel but it just bums me out everytime i read something like that.
I don't care. I don't care if Ecumenism is seen as a near impossibility. I will choose to believe it will happen. Even if it doesn't happen by the time i die, i'll believe that it's still coming, because there has to be a way for us all to get along, and agree that we are just different because people need different things. at the heart, we are the same.
It wasn't so much that she was baptised and now one of us, but more the idea of a group of friends and family, welcoming someone to something that means so much to all of us. Maybe SJI never really meant that much to me. *shrug*
So i came home with a song in my head and i did some research for a sharing i have to do in a week's time, and then my mood fell, cos as i was searching for articles on why we do what we do during the mass, i stumbled upon very well intentioned writers. But their intention was moot when the implication was just that we were wrong. I suppose i know that's how some feel but it just bums me out everytime i read something like that.
I don't care. I don't care if Ecumenism is seen as a near impossibility. I will choose to believe it will happen. Even if it doesn't happen by the time i die, i'll believe that it's still coming, because there has to be a way for us all to get along, and agree that we are just different because people need different things. at the heart, we are the same.