week 29/15

Movie Wednesday – Paul Blart: Mall Cop II

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We’re (mainly my son and I) waiting for this to get to our local Redbox. We saw the first one kind of by accident. My son took it out of the library and then he was home sick right before it needed to be returned, so I watched it with him white he was home from school.

Begrudgingly.

It was so funny.

And Kevin James walks that delicate and hilarious tightrope between jokey laughs and bad puns and physical hysteria. He is probably one of the best physical comedians today.

The first Paul Blart: Mall Cop was surprising in its heartwarming story of a father, who is seemingly always on the bottom, never able to reach the next rung personally and professionally, and his teenage daughter who loves him and refuses to be embarrassed by him even as he makes mistakes and tries too hard.

It was funny and sweet and I, for one have been looking forward to this sequel for some long time.

Hopefully tomorrow. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Monday’s Good for the Soul – Mass Returns

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With much less fanfare than General MacArthur, I returned to church this morning. The door was heavy, and the air conditioning was cool. I crossed myself at the font of holy water, and took my regular seat. There was no one there who I usually sit with but there were the many familiar faces of the “regulars”.

Flipping through the missalette to today’s date, I waited for the hymn number to be announced.

Number 39. Humbly, Lord, we worship you. Good tempo, not terribly long, simple, serene, and lovely, and then the mass began.

It was as if I hadn’t missed a day.

As much as I might have wanted there to be something acknowledged for me in my head, petting my feelings, there was nothing to make me think that that any time had passed or that I had somehow was gone too long. In fact, I didn’t feel as though I was absent or that I was coming back, I was simply home again.

I hadn’t been to the physical church building, but I hadn’t been ignoring my faith; G-d was still everywhere with me.

I look forward to tomorrow and the rest of the week’s Masses.