Why I Went To West Webster
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As I sat minding my business, having a drink at a local restaurant, a diner got up from his table and approached the bar to thank me for rendering honors to his loved one - a sixty one year veteran of the fire service.
As much as I know about the emergency services honor guard, as much time and effort as I have put into training, and as many honor guards as I've served on, I am more aware of the mistakes than I am of what was done right.
I have appreciated this form of my service in the fire department as an analogy for liturgical worship for a long time now.
That said, if I were to have responded to that grateful gentleman by pointing out several of the missteps I took during the firematic rites for his uncle, he would have claimed not to have noticed.
Why is it that popes, bishops, and their clergy and prominant parishioners are concerned with how CONFINING the older liturgical rites must be?
THEY AREN'T!
Mark Ingoglio is an emergency responder working in fire, EMS, and emergency management. A graduate of Mt. St. Mary College and originally a teacher of English and then also of high school Latin, he holds a CBIS from the American Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists and currently teach adult survivors of brain injury in the sub-acute rehabilitation setting. He is a life-long Catholic and resident of New York State, and a devotee of St. Ignatius and the Jesuit saints, admiring their drive to "go anywhere and do anything" in the service of Christ and His Catholic Church.
