October Mass

                   
      The October Mass of 1978 at North Cambridge Catholic Highschool


    My dad was concerned for my safety and transfered me from
  Cambridge Ringe and Latin High; to a Catholic porachial
  highschool; North Cambridge Catholic High.  At this point in
  my puberty I was oblivious to the difference. Except for the
  the occational morning Masses before class, I couldn't careless.
    Every Sunday dad would drive us to the Trinity Church in
  Boston to celebrate a very formal Tridentine Latin Mass. It
  was a gothic church with a huge alter and vaulting ceilings.
  The choir sang latin hyms at the back: on a belcony with
  an enormous organ behind it. The organ's pipes reached up
  to twenty feet. We were waved to stand and to kneel by an
  alcolyte. You could not attend with out a formal suite and
  tie or long dress for the ladies.
    The Masses at North Cambrige Catholic were Novis Ordo.
  A new order of ritual had been ordained, to open the Church
  to the changing times. .. I was delighted. The nuns were cute.
  They didn't wear habits and wore skirts above their knees.
  They wore tight tops of cotton loop knit or blouses exposing
  their cleavage. Cool fall seasons brought up woolen tights or
  slacks. I had never seen such casually dressed nuns.
      The Holloween Mass began with Fr. Raymond playing his
  guitar, while Sister Emiritas danced: swinging her hips and clapping.
  She was wearing a short skirt with brown tights. I could just spot
  her panty crotch.. There was a pumkin behind the alter. I asked
  Dino, sitting beside me, "If we should have brought @Coca-cola
  and hot-dog buns?" His eyes never left Sister Emeritas' skirt..
  I don't remember what the Preist was singing, but she sure
  could dance.
      The sermon was bizarre. Fr. Raymond began:

            "As you are well aware, human history has been
            essentially the history of great spiritual messengers,
            who from time to time have come forth in our hours
            of human crisis to inspire and lead.
            Luke 22:10 Jesus told his disciples to go into the
            city and find a man carrying a pitcher of water
            and follow him to the room where they would
            celebrate the Passover feast.
            What you probally are unaware of is the ancient
            symbol for Aquarius is that of the water carrier:
            a man with a pitcher of water.
            As Christians we follow the new era of Pisces:
            the symbol of the fish was the Christian icon.
            Christians would draw these symbols in caves
            where they cellibrated Masses.
            The Jews remain in the epoc of Aries, the Ram
            which follows the symbol of the Scapegoat.
            Traditionally, a goat would be scacrificed outside
            a Jewish town to absolve any sins not confessed
            in their Temple.
            The Bible uses astrology as a calendar of the Jews
            passage through history. When the Children of
            Israel sinned and worshiped the Egyptian golden
            calf; it was the age of Taurus, the Bull.
            Let us all sing 'Aquarius!'"
   
    Sister Emeritas asked us to stand and dance. I couldn't
    resist dancing with her..


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