Videos

I have visited other interesting blogs. However, I have observed that a number have been posting videos. While videos have been quite popular to some, I just do not have the patience to watch them online. Maybe because I don't have a state-of-the art computer that it takes awhile to view them.

On second thoughts, blogging for me should be more a venue for expressing individual ideas, writing one's thoughts and sharing information. Overloading a blog with videos and photos just doesn't really impress me. It's like making up for lack of substance. I am quite surprised how many people could have so much time going through them. I am more into worthwhile reading.

One time my friend called me a minimalist. Maybe because I keep things simple and as much as possible clutter-free. I prefer brevity and substance. Technology evolves quickly that we have so much information to digest thereby resulting in superficial knowledge.

Liberties in Mass

With the Christmas season just around the corner, almost everybody seems to be in a festive mood. In last Sunday's mass, I was surprised as after the gospel reading, a church group presented a short play. There is no doubt that the intention was to rouse people of their complacency in the faith. However, I have always felt that dances, plays or dramatizations are out of place at mass.

These days, church organizations reach out to people in many ways. Maybe they think that somehow being creative would draw more people to church. Almost everything is being secularized. Where do we draw the line between sacred and secular? I just wish that they leave the mass as it is. After all, people are in church not to be entertained. Nevertheless, after the presentation, the priest delivered his homily.

I just didn't see the sense in the intermission. A good homily could very well send out the message across and would have given people more to think about and reflect on after the mass.