rosary

naks.. feeling religious.. hehe. i was in the mood to write this kanina pero nasira ang mood ko dahil sa e-heads chaka dahil sa mga bros ko...

anyway...

this evening we were praying the rosary, which has been the tradition in our family since god-knows-when, when i realized how we never take the rosary seriously. well it's not actually a new realization but i realized it again a while ago.

i remember when ate jim and i were coming home (or going to ccp, not too sure) from the linkin park concert last tuesday and the driver was talking about the rosary and how he didn't believe in it. It's a 20minute prayer with absolutely zero meaning in it. It's routine, you repeat the same things over and over again-- there's no thought, no meaning in it!

during my [wonderful] days of my beloved alma mater, our teacher was telling us the proper way to pray the rosary: after every mystery, you're supposed to pause and reflect on the mystery and Jesus, and after that, state your personal intentions. No wonder ma always leaves a long pause before she says the Our Fathers and Hail Marys and the Glory Bes.

I wonder if anyone actually takes that seriously.

A while ago, I’ve come to see the evolution of the rosary in the family. What used to be something solemn prayed every weekend and every time we’d drive home from alabang during our elementary/high school days has turned into a joke. We end up looking at our surroundings for things to break the monotony of the prayer. Me, lafi, lio and Ma laughing at the industrial fan playing tricks on the light and hat. Lio throwing his [dirty, smelly] socks at me and lafi, shocking us. Usually, pa playing with his pustiso making us all laugh. me trying to hit/trip lafi every time he walks by me. the kuyas making funny faces or noises… The rosary has become a race of who gets to finish answering first. It has become a race of who gets to kiss ma and pa first after the rosary.

But strangely enough, despite the piousness of our family (or should I say, the piousness of ma, pa and liro), I’m not surprised at what’s happening. I guess it was all just a matter of time before things turned out this way.