Another sermon

Once again, tonight's lecture about music in the liturgy turned into another sermon for us participants: our speaker complained among other things about how parents were negligent in instructing their children how to behave properly during mass and that some even failed to correct their children's bad behavior during mass. But this time around, I didn't feel as ashamed as I did before. And although the other participants appeared dumbfounded by our speaker's remarks, I found myself totally agreeing with him because my parents did insist that we children behave during mass even when we were little--I was the one who meekly obeyed but my more headstrong and lively sister was a bit more of a problem--and I now would also get irritated by unruly children who are allowed to wander around the church, talk loudly and, horrors! even eat and drink while the mass was going on.