THE KIDS ARE BACK
The highlight of my week is attending the children’s or School Mass in our parish. The kids are to me a powerful army portending. in their uniform clothes and sedate behavior, a bright tomorrow. There’s usually music and singing, and perhaps some chances for the braver kids to try to answer questions about the faith posed by the priest during an interactive homily.
I once heard on the radio a speaker talk about how girls are better suited for school as we know it — sitting quietly, paying attention, giving the expected answers and responses — than are the boys, more suited for moving about, expressive behavior, and spontaneity.
But at the last School Mass I sat a few rows behind five cute-as-buttons little five year old girls whose constant squirming, fidgeting and activity, almost more than their attentive young teacher could monitor, vitiated all the theorizing about what might be expected, gender-wise .
