Church

Okay, we have learned a valuable lesson regarding the importance of teaching your children about faith. We never go to church unless of course we are at a wedding or baptising a child. We do pray at home and always before we eat but apparently that is not enough!! Well, we have decided to start making this a weekly event for a lot of reason, none of which are relevant to the posting of this blog.

Last week the baby and I went alone and while we were walking up to communion, there was a man walking behind us. He started singing to the baby in a really loud voice. The baby started 'singing' back to him. They held hands over my shoulder while I walked up the church aisle and the entire congregation looked upon us smiling. It was one of those 'moments' sent from above. Really!

Anyway, fast forward to this week. We went to mass with everyone, leaving the tranquil, peaceful, moving experience to last week. A stayed quiet for the most part, except of course to let us know, 'I don't like that man - he is scary!' By the way 'that man' happened to be the priest, yes the priest!!!

Then there was P. He had so many questions, comments, etc. Some of you may remember my post last year when he was getting church and the parade confused (two things we do twice a year.) Anyway, he seemed to understand there was a difference this year, only asking once if they would be throwing candy at him. When I started to explain he declared that he remembered!!

Some of his questions/comments...
Are we going to see G-d at church?
Why do we have to go to church to talk to G-d?
(When he saw the priest) Is that G-d?

Then the basket came around. Weird to be the parents giving each kid money so they could put it in the basket and not the kid begging for money. Anyway, he put the money in the basket and asked when they were going to give him a prize....yeah this is not a carnival babe!!

Anyway, quite the experience!! Needless to say, I signed him up for religious education which begins this fall.

Can I take pictures at church??



Please note, we took our noise-makers to the back of the church, listened through the pipes and watched through the CLOSED glass doors!! I have to say, the leather couches are much more cozy than the wooden pews!!