{"id":372,"date":"2005-09-25T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/09\/2005_09_25_2236.php"},"modified":"2005-09-25T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-25T14:36:55","slug":"good-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/25\/good-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Good weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just came from mass today, after like how many years of not going to church. I mean I <em>do<\/em> go to mass when we have to sing for it hehehe. I guess I was compelled to thank the Lord somehow for everything that has been happening to me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DLSU gets to go to the championships<\/li>\n<li><strong>The<\/strong> Tim Henson, &#8220;author&#8221; of my favorite comedy podcast <em>Distorted View Daily,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/2005_07_28_2131.php\" title=\"view post\">left me a message<\/a> on one of my posts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonofelipe.com\/\" title=\"Visit site\">Nono<\/a> hooked me up on a quick racket which gives me some shopping money \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m practically stress free<\/li>\n<li>Good things have been developing nicely on the personal life<\/li>\n<li>Was able to talk to a person who empathizes with my situation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was telling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~wershwie\/\" title=\"visit blog\">Leslie<\/a> that I was always fearful that bad karma would come my way for all the bad stuff I did (intentionally or not) in the past years of my life, and believe me, there have been quite a lot. And that painful jolt would beat me into shape.<\/p>\n<p>But surprisingly, the opposite has happened &#8211; but with the same effect. Life has been so kind [recently] that I can&#8217;t help but appreciate His providence and feel compelled to become a better person&#8230; to <em>try<\/em> to be worthy of it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this may just be a high. Like when you go to a retreat, so <em>hindi ako magsasalita ng tapos,<\/em> but right now, this very moment, it&#8217;s crystal clear what I want to do&#8230; I just hope it stays that way for my sake, and the sake of everyone else around me.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>Anyways, enough of that.<\/p>\n<p>So <em>bale<\/em> the last time I stepped foot in Christ the King Parish was during a wedding Nono and I had to shoot for. The last time I actually heard mass there (or heard mass at all is beyond my recollection already).<\/p>\n<p>It was so friggin&#8217; cold! I wish I had brought my jacket. And the usual lousy altar paint is there. What the hell were they thinking when they painted that area!?<\/p>\n<p>We attended the 8PM mass, and the music was alien to me. I was so used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bukaspalad.com\" title=\"visit BukasPalad.com\">BP<\/a> songs that I totally couldn&#8217;t relate! What was bad wasn&#8217;t because I couldn&#8217;t relate but that I really didn&#8217;t dig the songs. Has the taste in liturgical music in some parishes decayed that much? Or am I just biased to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bukaspalad.com\" title=\"visit BukasPalad.com\">BP<\/a> songs in general? I would like to hope it was the latter&#8230; but I really think it&#8217;s the former.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long argument in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bukasapalad.com\/board\" title=\"View discussion board\">discussion boards<\/a> about &#8220;proper&#8221; type of music in the church, and there seems to be a stalemate between the old-school views and the more progressive views. After going to mass a while ago, I can honestly say that I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not old-school&#8230; because it can get <em>really<\/em> boring. The songs weren&#8217;t old-school <em>sa lagay na yon<\/em> and already I found it difficult to keep myself engaged in the celebration. <em>Pano pa kaya<\/em> if they became stricter with the music.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the use of trying to retain the &#8220;technical purity&#8221; of liturgical music, when you&#8217;ll end up alienating everyone in these modern times&#8230; to me, it seems more like an obstinate than amicable cause. Whatever music you play, when there&#8217;s no one to worship, then the whole celebration loses its point.<\/p>\n<p>So I totally agree with the progressive view of attempting to revitalize the community with music that is pleasing to a given culture.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came from mass today, after like how many years of not going to church. I mean I do go to mass when we have to sing for it hehehe. I guess I was compelled to thank the Lord somehow for everything that has been happening to me. DLSU gets to go to the championships &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/25\/good-weekend\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[298,747],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cris-tanjutco","tag-mass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}