On Easter
Just watched Easter Sunday Mass. Something occurred to me. Parishioners seemed to have been allowed back into the audience in full (after the virus lockdown), and the babies were crying loudly at the start.
Is there something about the actual service that calms them? They stopped crying out after the first few minutes. It seemed like a correspondence between the pain of early life and the pain of Jesus on cross in the background.
It is so difficult to achieve calm, whether a baby or an adult.