Multi-tasking

It’s not that we’re short handed or anything, but tonight at Mass I lit the candles, did the readings, helped with the collection, was a Eucharistic minister and handed out bulletins at the church door as people left.

One of my friends came up and said, “Do you do windows?”

Yesterday a woman from church called and left a message asking me to come to a meeting on Monday night to talk about ideas about the liturgy we might try over the rest of the year. I would be happy to do so, but I have to run a meeting of our Social Justice group at the same time.

At Social Justice, we don’t really have officers, but four years ago, the woman running the group decided to step down after many years. Since I seemed to keep showing up at the meetings, a group of members asked me to take over. The group was established about thirty years ago, and a few of the original members are still active. They are in their eighties now, though, and are not up to some of the physical work we do. Another one of those long time members died recently. It’s hard to get people to come to meetings and do some of the less glamorous work between our monthly gatherings.

Now I’m not complaining about what I do—I think it’s fun, but does anyone else have trouble getting people to step up and volunteer to do things at church?