1.  Today at Mass, as usual, during the consecration of the gifts, I was watching them.  (As if I’m going to *see* them change into the Body and Blood — I know, I’m silly, but I still think it’s fascinating.)  As I’m watching, I was thinking back to (here’s where I’m not sure exactly where I read it) when they say that if you look at the face of God directly, you will die, and how everyone was afraid of that.

Why were they afraid?  And why would God have them die?

My unofficial hypothesis that I thought of:
a.  ‘Seeing the face of God’ may = ‘knowing God’ — as in truly knowing, not knowing about.
b.  ‘Dying’ = ‘going home to God’
Thus,
c.  If you ‘see God,’ all of Him, and truly know Him, then what attachment would you have to this world?

None.

So, then, it makes sense that you might detach from everything here, and just go right home to Him in heaven.  Isn’t that the point of everything?  To go home?  Then, ‘dying’ after ‘seeing the face of God’ isn’t some bad thing, but actually something that we might want, or should want.

Just in case anyone wanted to know what I think about during Mass….  🙂

2.  This one got me odd looks from my coworker.  I just came into the church last year, baptized and everything, and have really fallen in love.  So, at work, they are coming to think that I am some type of freakish uber-Catholic.  And I’m okay with that.  I don’t mind being full of zeal for the right things.  Even if they think that I’m odd.  I do tend to get carried away with things — I know this.

So, what got me the odd looks was my next Big Idea.  (Everybody say, “Uh, oh.  What now?)  I have this clothesline in my backyard that my dad built a while back.  Well, one of the poles fell down and it’s been years since it was actually used as a clothesline.  So the only thing remaining in my backyard is a …  you got it … large wooden cross.

What are you going to do, Jenn?  Again at Mass, earlier in the week, I got this idea:  I am going to ‘dress’ my cross for Lent.  I am going to go to the fabric store and get a length of purple fabric and drape it like the crucifix is draped in the chapel.

So, am I completely nuts, or is this a good idea?