Comments | kiss_me_cassie: May the Fourth, May the Force, May the Lord

kiss_me_cassie

May the Fourth, May the Force, May the Lord

May 04, 2016 12:23

MAY THE LORD BE WITH YOU ( Read more... )

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hooloovoo_42 May 4 2016, 18:47:12 UTC

Coming from a totally non religious household, we learned the Lord's Prayer when we went to junior school (age 7) from the sheet pasted into the front of our new hymn books. We said it every day in school assembly.

When I started Brownies, I went to Church Parade at the Methodist church and learned to sing the Lord's Prayer to their tune.

When I started going to the Anglican church, I learned all the creeds, versicals, chants for the psalms etc.

I agree, it's always "and also with you".

kiss_me_cassie May 4 2016, 22:08:28 UTC

::nods firmly::

quaggy_mire May 4 2016, 21:47:20 UTC

You know, growing up I thought it was my weirdness that would, whenever anyone said "May the Force be with you," make me want to respond "And also with you". It was so reassuring to realize that others who were raised Catholic want to do the same thing. I was pretty upset when they changed the Catholic liturgy so that the response to "Peace Be With You" is different... mostly for Star Wars reasons! (I have a mental block to what the new response is, which works well as I consider myself to be a "lapsed Catholic".)

Happy Star Wars Day! May the Force be with you!

kiss_me_cassie May 4 2016, 22:01:41 UTC

And also with you! *g*

hooloovoo_42 May 4 2016, 23:16:31 UTC

IANACatholic, but isn't the new response "And with your spirit"?

kiss_me_cassie May 5 2016, 13:55:59 UTC

That sounds right? I've gone in a Catholic church exactly twice since they changed it. Once for a wedding and once for a funeral.

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kiss_me_cassie May 5 2016, 13:55:13 UTC

I don't even know what the 'tune' is. If it's even a tune? It's sort of more a chant, but more than just a chant? I dunno. But it's burned in my brain.

Yeah, I'm all messed up with the sit, stand, kneel ever since getting the Episcopal church, which you can kneel *if you want* and stand *if you want* and dammit, give me clear instructions!

hooloovoo_42 May 5 2016, 19:49:29 UTC

We always stood up together, but the kneeling to pray was optional v sitting with head bowed. I went to a Good Friday Catholic Mass in Dresden one year and the guy I went with looked at me like I'd sworn at the Pope when I didn't kneel.