Sunday Mass

Yesterday we attended our regular 11:00 am Mass and it went OK for the first 20 minutes until Charlie decided he no longer wanted to be a silent participant. And like most Sundays Travis quietly took him out. The two later came back in for communion and for the rest of the service. Chancellor and Travis left right after to go get a doughnut and juice from the hall then head home because Chancellor had baseball practice. Lily, Charlie and myself stayed behind to receive the blessing of St. Blaise. While waiting in line to receive our blessing I was explaining to Lily that Father Bob was going to hold a candle (not burning of course) up to our throat and say a special prayer for each of us. I told her not to say anything except for Amen after the blessing. She said, "OK mommy." When it came to be our turn, we stepped up and the comedy ensued. Lily immediately stuck up her hand as making the stop sign and said, "Father Bob, wait, wait, wait! Can you please bless Bubby too?" Bubby is Lily's rabbit "lovey" that she has had since birth. Of course Father is rolling in the floor, the Deacon who was beside him stopped blessing some poor family and was laughing out loud as were the 75 people around us. So Lily held Bubby high in the air with a big satisfied smile and the three, I mean, four of us received a blessing. Afterwords, Father Bob got down on one knee and said, "Lily, I can promise you Bubby will never get a sore throat from here on out." As we exited the church it was to the sounds of "Bless her heart", "How precious" and "Wasn't that the cutest thing you have ever seen?"