Just Ed & me

It being Labor Day weekend, the "end-of-summer" holiday (end of summer? that was weeks ago this year!), I expected a bit of a low turnout for Mass this morning and in that I was not disappointed. But the surprise was the almost total absence of school-age children. None of our acolytes or torchbearers were there.

Checking my e-mail I found Acolyte Master Ranjit's weekly reminder of the scheduled Epistler, acolytes, torch-bearers and Sunday School banner-bearer. (A lot of our parish communications are conducted by e-mail now, with provisions made for the few still without.) Then there were the followups from the parents of the kids who were scheduled: they would all be out of town and with requests for others who might me be able to stand in. The silence clearly meant nobody else was going to be in town either -- and so it was.

Kavya could have carried the church-school banner, but all the other church-schoolers were absent so there was no need and we skipped the church-school hymn.

This made for a plain and simple service with just Deacon Ed and me conducting.

We're both on deck again next Sunday, but I expect the kids will be back.