{"id":21627,"date":"2013-08-18T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=21627"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:42:01","slug":"mega-mass-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/mega-mass-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Mass Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we had the <em>&#8220;Mega Mass&#8221;<\/em> here in San Diego, where the Bishop celebrated the Eucharistic liturgy with approximately 600 Young Adults. Since I now only occasionally go to a Roman Rite Mass, I did find it a little strange. Among the things which now seem a little alien to me, in particular, is receiving the Eucharist from someone other than a priest.<\/p>\n<p>Although I didn&#8217;t receive Communion from a priest, I received from the next best thing, the SWAT commando of Catholics, my friend Artzell.\u00a0Art has a way of bringing out the uber-Catholic in me. The first time we met, we ended up having a huge argument as to which of us had the more powerful patron Saint and which of us most desired martyrdom \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, to mark the occasion, I created a meme parodying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Bc0WjTT0Ps\">Dos Equis adverts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Artzell-Bautista.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21628 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Artzell-Bautista.png\" alt=\"Artzell Bautista\" width=\"465\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Artzell-Bautista.png 465w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Artzell-Bautista-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>The article <a title=\"Mega Mass Meme\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/mega-mass-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mega Mass Meme<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/RestlessPilgrim.net\" target=\"_blank\">RestlessPilgrim.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we had the &#8220;Mega Mass&#8221; here in San Diego, where the Bishop celebrated the Eucharistic liturgy with approximately 600 Young Adults. Since I now only occasionally go to a Roman Rite Mass, I did find it a little strange. Among the things which now seem a little alien to me, in particular, is receiving the Eucharist from someone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2352,660,269,2353,2969,2351],"class_list":["post-21627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-artzell-bautista","tag-communion","tag-eucharist","tag-extraordinary-minister","tag-featured","tag-mega-mass"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21627"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56745,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions\/56745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}