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In my former years of blissful ignorance (before the birth of my daughter), I routinely confided with my ministry-minded peers as to how difficult it was to fully participate in worship while one was serving as a pastoral minister.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They all agreed.  Those of us who regularly serve as lectors, preachers,
deacons, acolytes, or (as in my case) liturgical musicians, know exactly the kind of attention one must bring to leading liturgical action.  It is a strange mix of hyper-awareness and detachment\u2014enough focus to know exactly what\u2019s happening, but not enough to become too emotionally-involved (and miss your next liturgical cue!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I must preface that I would not trade my charming\n16-month old for a 1,000 or 1,001 worship events where I was serving as music\nminister, I must say that the level of attention I can bring to Mass as a music\nminister FAR surpasses any attention I can muster while wrangling an active\nlittle girl.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, my husband and I have become those <\/em>people, who wander into the nave only to occupy the last pew,\nand pass back and forth a baby who is content while music is playing, but tends\nto babble when it is NOT.  We can get\nthrough with her baby Bible during the homily, but one of us (sometimes both) makes\na mad dash with a chattering child to the narthex at some point right around\nthe recitation of the Creed.  And, in the\nnarthex we remain, walking her around, pointing out interesting features (a\npotted plant, the American flag, the coffee urn for coffee and donuts set up)\nuntil we can skulk back into the nave for communion.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s even worse\u2014we\u2019re not even going to our own PARISH\nfor these adventures.  As I often play on\nSunday morning, we try to make it to a vigil Mass so we can all go together\u2014and\nour own parish\u2019s Mass time is rather late. \nSo we go to an earlier Mass, a bit further afield, at a different\nparish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this is our newbie-parent dilemma with just one little child, what do parents with two, three, or *gasp* more <\/em>children do at Mass?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I, who perennially like to be hard on myself, might think that I\u2019m simply failing as a parent\u2014or as a Christian.  I\u2019m clearly not focused enough\u2014prayerful enough\u2014spiritual enough\u2014a good parent enough\u2014to cohesively unite my life of prayer with my newest little family member.  Surely people for ages upon ages have been successfully shepherding their toddlers (and toddlers not even big enough to toddle) to sit quietly during Mass!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, perhaps this is an unseen, or underappreciated moment in my spiritual life.  This time spent wrangling a small child will not be my existence for all of my life\u2014but it is a season of my life.  So what have I to learn from this season?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practicing being the\nlittle church of the family:<\/strong> It would be a lot easier if we simply didn\u2019t <\/em>take her to Mass\u2014but we have\ntaken her.  Every weekend.  Since Advent 1 2017.  Going to Mass as a family is important to\nus\u2014even if our attention at that Mass is a little imperfect.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helping the prayer of\nothers:<\/strong> We have become very aware of how others around us are responding to\nus\u2014and this is perhaps why we feel compelled to dart out if our little one\nmakes a peep\u2014we very much do not want to be distracting to those around\nus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Receiving hospitality\nfrom strangers:<\/strong> And, I must say, even as we traverse as foreigners in a\nforeign parish, we have had more people come up to us to say our daughter is\n\u201cso good,\u201d or \u201cso sweet,\u201d or to welcome us\u2014rather than give us long dark stares\nfor having a wriggling child.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning from\nmoments, not mountaintops:<\/strong> I also find that certain phrases from the\nreadings, the homily, or the music that we hear\u2014might be sweet singing blips\nwhich draw me in to the experience of worship, if only for a moment.  Perhaps this is a seedbed of lectio divina<\/em>: I am being asked to draw\ndeeply from just a few words of God, and my response can only be gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, chances are you will find me and my husband, with\nour little girl, at next Saturday night\u2019s vigil Mass.  We\u2019ll be doing our best to actively\nparticipate\u2014it just looks a little different from this angle at this time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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