Mass Confusion, 1

We went to Mass last Sunday.  Domu has a former classmate who is always present at Mass, and she and Domu are always at play during Mass.  It's fun to watch them play because they don't really speak to each other.  Domu doesn't speak Chinese, and the girl (Mei mei) mainly speaks Chinese, although she knows English and Domu knows a little Chinese.

When the two play, they can really get going.  At first, they quietly run from the back of the pews to the middle aisle almost halfway to the altar and round the pews back to the back again.  Sometimes, they get carried away and become noisy, and we remind them with a stare and a Sssshh!

There is a section at the back that is partly enclosed.  If they spend their playtime there, they're most unobtrusive.

In last Sunday's Mass, the consecration bell dingding'ed at the wrong time.  Usually it will do a ding-ding-ding at consecration, but this time the dinging was in the middle of the homily.  A soft, but audible dingdingding.

I looked at the back, and as expected, Domu had the bell in his hands and ringing it softly. I gave him the stare and he let it down softly.

A few seconds later it was ringing again.  Dingdingding It was Mei mei this time.  Nothing I can do about that.  She's not my child.