Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Sixty-four, Babo

"Is the Father Hindu?"

"No...he's Catholic."

For many years now Christmas spent at home included Midnight Christmas Mass with one of my good friends. Every now and then the other members that accompany us change but I go with him when I'm in town. Yeah, it's odd going to a Christian church for a ceremony honoring the birth of their Son of God (in my world, another avatar). But it's joyous as well in the same vein that going to Janmashatmi or Shivratri at the temples brings to me. There is some energy gained from large groupings of spiritually-minded people, whether Hindu or Catholic.