{"id":807955,"date":"2020-05-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384126"},"modified":"2020-05-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:00:00","slug":"walking-our-faith-a-healing-balm-for-times-of-grieving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/walking-our-faith-a-healing-balm-for-times-of-grieving\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Our Faith: A healing balm for times of grieving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson<\/strong>
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A healing balm. That\u2019s the best way I can describe the feeling of attending Mass on a weekday evening.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, I left work at 5 p.m. and knew there was a Mass at 6 because I signed up to attend. But honestly, it was the end of the day, I was tired, and I thought, I\u2019ll just go home. And yet, at 5:50 p.m., I found myself getting out of my car in front of St. Mary\u2019s in Breckenridge.  <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why a weekday evening Mass is so special to me, whether it\u2019s because there are fewer people or the way the early evening light fills the church through stained glass windows or stepping out of the natural rhythm of Sunday morning service and the extra little bit of effort it takes to come to church on a weekday. It\u2019s as if time slows and space expands and fills with God\u2019s presence in a way that is more noticeable to me. Perhaps I am simply paying more attention.<\/p>\n

But to enter the church on a weekday evening is to fully experience entering a sacred space and doing it because I need to experience the divine.<\/p>\n

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