Etiquette Question for Holy Thursday

I have a question about what is appropriate to do at Holy Thursday Mass. When everyone gets up and washes each other's feet, with an invitation to every single parishioner to have their feet washed as well as do the washing for others, what should our family do? Do we participate at all? Do we leave it up to each of our personal consciences as to whether or not to participate? Do we sit out, thereby being the only family to do so?


I have not participated at all since moving here (this will be our fifth Easter here), but I'm wondering if I'm being purposefully obstinate about it, or if I should sit it out. And what about my girls, who want to participate?


I am at a loss as to what to do here, and I'm certain that sitting out as a family and refusing to participate has been the wrong thing to do.


So, have at it in the comboxes. Do we go with the flow? "When in Rome" and all that? What should we do?






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Photography Bleg

Dad gave me his old camera (Thanks, Dad!!), and I am thrilled. Bought the battery for the F-stop. Installed. Got ready to change rolls of film and can't get the back open. (Will ask Dad for instructions on that.)

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Bleg (Updated)

Okay, I tweaked my blog's template and now Firefox people say there's no background to the text on posts. I can see one with IE7, but...it would be nice if everyone could.

Here's what I'm looking for. I want my blog to have the static background image, which it now does. I also want the textbox-background portion of the posts to stop at the bottom of the last post (or at the bottom of the last sidebar item).

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UPDATE: I think I figured it out. I looked at the old template and guessed which thing it was that I took off that made the difference. Oddly enough, the page looks no different to me on IE7. Go figure.