Overwhelmed and not sure what to do

[Kal2012]

If you are worried jeans might be too dressed-down, wear dress pants, and then you can scope out what others are wearing for next time.

Jeans shouldn’t be worn in more conservative parishes.

Since my spouse is Catholic (and more conservative), I take my cues about what’s okay and what’s not from him.

Jeans = no-no

‘Business casual’ is a better choice.

My RCIA class had a discussion about why the parish doesn’t enforce a dress code anymore - unless it’s too short shorts or tank tops w/the super skinny straps on tank tops. Our group came to the consensus that there is such a thing as “too casual” and “showing too much butt”. Our director was surprised by our attitude as it’s relatively new that people aren’t dressed so formally for church these days and they don’t want to be in charge of enforcing a strict dress code. I tend to think there could be a balance between both extremes.

There’s never going to be 100% agreement on this issue and it’s one of the things that people love to argue about. (Consider this fair warning!)

 

[crazzeto]

My suggestion is to pray, my next suggestion is to pray, and my last suggestion is to keep praying

I think it’s wonderful you are exploring God’s true, orthodox Church. I pray the Holy Spirit will be near you in this time. I would certainly recommend the possibility of purchasing a Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can read it online free, but having a print copy ready available will be available will be useful. I’m sure many other books have been suggested, I would just like to reenforce anyone who’s suggested the Catechism. This is the right and true reference for Catholic doctrine.

How exciting to be starting this journey, I will keep you in my prayers!

 

[TwinMommy]

1. It’s totally normal to be nervous about going to your first Catholic Mass. (Just needed to get that out there because my background is similar to yours). And, it’s totally normal to feel overwhelmed. It’s a huge jump, but keep in mind that others have taken the same journey and we are doing great.
2. Different parishes have different programming. Larger parishes will have more activities, but smaller parishes have their benefits too.
3. You need to just try out different parishes and see if they are a good fit for you and your family.

In my town, this is how it went for me.

One I didn’t try because they are just “too big”. One I didn’t like because I knew my husband wouldn’t go for singing Christian rock songs off a screen. One was pointed out as the “Liberal” parish in town. My family is not Liberal in our politics or theology. (Every town has the ‘Liberal’ parish, BTW) The other is the university parish, so I wasn’t sure what that would be like. The parish I’m at was recommended by a friend who had underwent a similar search when she moved to the area - and she spent a long time going to parishes not just in our town, but nearby suburbs as well. For me, it was the fact that they have a nursery and they are right down the street that I live on that closed the deal.

1. Everyone’s journey is different. I’ve been attending church (formally, again) more regularly since starting RCIA. RCIA helped me navigate my way around the church part of the community since my spouse doesn’t practice his faith. However, most people in my social circle and community are Catholic. So while mass is still kind of new, Catholicism really isn’t.
2. RCIA is great - even if you decide not to convert at the end of it. There’s just a lot of history and topics that the class covers. It’s really a good experience. Also, because the other people in the class are also interested in converting, they have a lot of good information about the parishes in the area too.

I think because this is coming at the same time we are moving, I think I am opening up easier. Everyone is expecting me to be leaving the church I am at. Everyone knows I looking for a new church. It was the search for a new church that brought me to where I am. I was already questioning somethings but just let it go. Once I started the search I was very unhappy with what I was finding and feeling that there had to be something different, there had to be something more.

I haven’t been to a Sunday service in about a month because things have been crazy, the boys had been sick and I honestly just haven’t felt that it is somewhere I wanted to be. I am always amazed at how God works. His ways are so much greater than ours.

I am very conservative with politics and theology. I feel theology is getting so twisted and so far off base that some don’t see how bad it is.

There are three parishes I am looking at. One does seem to have a lot of things going on, the site says it is an “open Catholic” church. I have no clue what that means LOL

For the area I am going, I don’t think any of them will be real big. Where I am at now we have a number of large parishes. One here is famous for the Kennedy marriage.

I am worried how it will be with the boys. Where we go now they are in the chapel during praise and worship. They can barely be quite for 20 minutes LOL

The classes sound amazing. I love history and that is one thing that is drawing me to the Catholic church. Solid history, a solid Church, solid beliefs…all very very good!

 

[TwinMommy]

My suggestion is to pray, my next suggestion is to pray, and my last suggestion is to keep praying

I think it’s wonderful you are exploring God’s true, orthodox Church. I pray the Holy Spirit will be near you in this time. I would certainly recommend the possibility of purchasing a Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can read it online free, but having a print copy ready available will be available will be useful. I’m sure many other books have been suggested, I would just like to reenforce anyone who’s suggested the Catechism. This is the right and true reference for Catholic doctrine.

How exciting to be starting this journey, I will keep you in my prayers!

Praying is what I am doing for sure Right now purchasing anything is out of the question. We are moving because we are being evicted. We are moving in with my SIL for two months while we get our utilities paid off because they are all about two months behind. They will not switch them over to a new place till they are caught up. So money is wicked tight, more than usual.

I have been reading them online and using my phone for a lot of great resources.

 

[TwinMommy]

Jeans shouldn’t be worn in more conservative parishes.

Since my spouse is Catholic (and more conservative), I take my cues about what’s okay and what’s not from him.

Jeans = no-no

‘Business casual’ is a better choice.

My RCIA class had a discussion about why the parish doesn’t enforce a dress code anymore - unless it’s too short shorts or tank tops w/the super skinny straps on tank tops. Our group came to the consensus that there is such a thing as “too casual” and “showing too much butt”. Our director was surprised by our attitude as it’s relatively new that people aren’t dressed so formally for church these days and they don’t want to be in charge of enforcing a strict dress code. I tend to think there could be a balance between both extremes.

There’s never going to be 100% agreement on this issue and it’s one of the things that people love to argue about. (Consider this fair warning!)

I think in any denomination this is a topic of debate. Yes there is most certainly as too casual. I think life in general has gotten too casual. Drives me nuts since people at the store in pj pants. There is a lady who wears slippers to church on Sunday…
A good balance is what is needed.

 

[TwinMommy]

There is a study Bible of the New Testament made by Scott Hahn and others called the St. Ignatius Study Bible. I have not yet bought it because I want both Old and New Testament but I hear it’s a VERY good Bible.
Because the way catholics & orthodox see the Holy Scriptures is so different from the protestant way of what I call “Literalism” it is heard to cram a Bible full with adequate amount of commentary explaining all the Four senses of every scripture word. Protestants usually only deal with One: The Literal Truth of the Word. In Catholicism the commentary goes deeper from the A: literal to B: “What is this Bible verse saying about the Church” C: “what is it saying abou the individual readers soul”, D: "What is it saying about ‘The End of Days’ or ‘The Heavenly things’. Because of this way to read the Bible a complete study of it is better suited to individual books. For example there is a famoua book called “The Life of Moses” written by one of the so called Cappadocian Fathers St Gregory of Nyssa which deals specifically about the literal and allegorical/spiritual interpretations of the Bible narrative on the Life of Moses. I suspect that the St Ignatius study Bible will be more resembling the protestant Bibles concentrating on the literal sense of the Word or maybe mentioning a few from each. Anyway, this kind of reading becomes more “prayerful” and the Bible becomes something more than just a quote-archive from which one can draw “ammunition” to justify various claims. For this reason you dont have the kind of ever increasing amounts of division that exists in protestantism. Everyone know there is some “key” missing and everyone who starta a new denomination think they found it! In the christianity of the church fathers of Old the Bible along with Christ was the very sustenance of the soul & reading it continually in this way makes it possible for Jesus Christ to speak directly to every individual.

I have been moving towards catholicism and orthodoxy for about 1 year or a bit more. I gave up in protestantism (was born a lutheran like most swedes) even before I started seriously thinking about the existence of God and if I were to search for His will. When I became a believer I simply knew within me that only once professing Jesus Christ to be the Son of God and my personal Saviour wasnt alone gonna forgive my past, current and future sins and grant me eternal life. God expected more from us. We have to aim for him in every aspect of our daily life. The cruciiction of Jesus Christ was not simply a “blood debt” being played to an angry God, for God is All Good. The Christ of all time showed us the virtue of humility as he humbled himself to as God become Man in the fleshly condition with all its vanities. He took our sins upon himself and sacrificed His life to change us from within. After having descended into Hell he rose from the Dead on the third day, displaying in full effect for the world to see that God has become Man and Conquered Death itself so that if man believed in Him, obeys His commands & follows his path by way of emulating his life we can too become One with God. These were the true Good News to me, which i never heard before and the understanding of this message and it implications was the way i which the Lord took me out of Egypt. By conquering Death (the fear of), Satan can hold no sway over us. Sadly it has been forgotten in protestantism or is largely left aside for a simplistic wishful thinking approach in which it is sometimes even viewed as unnecessary to stop sinning. No way to inspire a culture and i believe directly responsible for te militant atheism of today.

Protestant Bibles get bigger and bigger and more and more translations come out. When it comes to buying a Protestant Bible, it is a huge headache. Each church tends to use a specific Bible and has a problem with the other ones. I don’t get it.

You put this oh so wonderfully.

 

[TwinMommy]

Twinmommy: It’s a joy to read your posts. Your enthusiasm is inspiring.

Most kids I know say this prayer at bedtime:

God our Father, I come to say
Thank you for your love today.
Thank you for my family
And all the friends you give to me.
Guard me through the dark of night,
And in the morning send your light.
Amen.

I reckon it’s suitable for a 5 year old.

I’ll say a little prayer tonight for you and yours.

I am going to have to put that on my phone. Sounds perfect for the boys. Thank you.
Thank you for saying prayers. It means a lot.

Dianna

 

[TwinMommy]

Indeed. Palm Sunday is amazing. Where I came from (Mormonism and atheism), it isn’t recognized. It was totally new, and surprising, for me.

Sacramentals, such as palm leaves, were completely new to me, and from a Mormon background, they are viewed as signs of an evil and apostate church! They don’t even decorate their churches. So! While all Catholic “stuff” was overwhelming my senses, and was very wonderful, it was also very strange. Now, I can’t imagine life without Mass, and all the things we use in our life, centered on Jesus Christ.

Yeah, it just comes from doing it, reading and asking questions.

If you are worried jeans might be too dressed-down, wear dress pants, and then you can scope out what others are wearing for next time.

I know I am going to enjoy all the “stuff” that is in the Catholic church and used during Mass. I am sure it will be sensory overload but willing to risk it LOL

 

[TwinMommy]

I feel like I am lying and I am really starting to beat myself up. My closest friends from church are very anti-catholic. I have not said anything about what is going on with searching for a church, other than I am doing that. I have been searching for sometime now and have not given any details because I didn’t know where I would end up and sometimes everything doesn’t have to be shared.

No matter what is going on, even if I was staying at my church for the rest of my life, I wouldn’t be going tonight. A friend called to say she was going to be running late but would be there. I told her I wasn’t going. She then got on me about Sunday. My mom is going to be here, she is not a Christian, I am not going to drag her to church if she doesn’t want to go. My friend didn’t get that(she has been a Christian her whole life, her father is a Pastor in another state). I am planning on going to Mass Sunday, I have been where, what time, and my mom is going to watch my boys. I am worried I am going to feel horrible because I am keeping it to myself for now.

I am not saying anything because I want to be prepared with concerns…the same ones I had, and I want to make sure I know the proper things to tell them, can point them to scripture and so on. Also, I am very happy about this and I really don’t need anyone trying to turn it into something bad.

IDK probably not making sense. For those who use to be protestant, what did you do concerning family/friends/church when you decided you want to be home in the Church? I don’t want to lose my friends and sad to say it but I know I will with some of them, and I guess this will show me who my friends really are.

 

[crazzeto]

Praying is what I am doing for sure Right now purchasing anything is out of the question. We are moving because we are being evicted. We are moving in with my SIL for two months while we get our utilities paid off because they are all about two months behind. They will not switch them over to a new place till they are caught up. So money is wicked tight, more than usual.

I have been reading them online and using my phone for a lot of great resources.

Oh, well never mind the free ones work well! I’ll link you to a couple of differnent websites that have it.

This one is searchable, so if you want to find a topic it’s good
scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

Here is the new USCCB version which appears to now be searchable as well. But it’s also formatted a bit more book like
usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catechism/catechism-of-the-catholic-church/epub/index.cfm

If you don’t own a bible, here is a Douay-Rheims bible which is a bit like the KJV
drbo.org/

On the vatican website there is a copy of the New American Bible which is very readable and more contemporary.
vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM

 

[TwinMommy]

Oh, well never mind the free ones work well! I’ll link you to a couple of differnent websites that have it.

This one is searchable, so if you want to find a topic it’s good
scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

Here is the new USCCB version which appears to now be searchable as well. But it’s also formatted a bit more book like
usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catechism/catechism-of-the-catholic-church/epub/index.cfm

If you don’t own a bible, here is a Douay-Rheims bible which is a bit like the KJV
drbo.org/

On the vatican website there is a copy of the New American Bible which is very readable and more contemporary.
vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM

Awesome!! I will be looking into all of these.

 

[KathleenGee]

Going through some of your observations, Twinmommy, I was listening to Fr Mitch Pacwa about how the media is saying the Church should appoint a progressive who will update our centuries’ olds belief.

He also noted that when Christian churches and denominations start listening to the world to tell them what to do, their numbers go down.

When anyone listens to the world and its advice, and not the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, it goes down.

The Catholic Church through its teaching Magesterium, protects us from error. We learn the full gospel of Jesus Christ through the apostolic teachings. St. Peter in his second letter, exhorts us not to follow personal interpretation, but to hold fast to those who actually witnessed ‘His Majesty, Our Lord’.

 

[KathleenGee]

About the Mass. I studied under my archbishop for 5.5 years, parttime as I was raising 4 teens and caring for my ailing father at home.

My last two classes were ecumenism with Bishop Meeking who was on the Vatican 2 Council for Ecumenism, and the other, the Liturgy. I liked both very much.

But it was here that I began to understand what priests have said, if only Catholics – Catholics…would take time to see what the Mass is and does. It is my favorite study.

Problem is that so many Catholics are working and tending to so many things, and so when a class comes up in parish, they are unable to come.

If people would understand that the Mass is our literal exit from this world that is always trying to tell the Church what to do…when our focus is the life and teachings of Jesus Christ…and by life, we are incorporated into Jesus at Mass…blessed are those who can attend daily Mass!..the Mass is our recharger.

You go to Mass and enter into the Kingdom of Christ, you carry Him in you, you become more Christ like every day…you receive the Eucharist and thank Him…and you have alot of energy to go out the door to serve the world…you are not aware so much of Him working in you.

But isn’t God’s work His work?..Our focus is on Him. We give Him the glory.

We do so at Mass. The content and form, its spirit is the same as done by 100 AD.

Worship is to be dictated and designed by God, not man. How can we please and honor Him? You look at the Exodus…He told Moses how they were to worship Him and appease sin. Christ fulfilled all of it. He said, ‘Do this…in memory of Me’. The Mass is the Memorial…the new form of worship given us by Christ, not man.

You enter into God’s presence. You go to confession, not so much to the priest, but to Christ Himself. I still find going to confession hard and I am a cradle Catholic. But when you receive absolution, you will know so well it is Jesus Christ Himself who is blessing you and sanctifying you, and making the world and everything around you in perfect balance and harmony.

It is sin that warps the world around us. When we have sin removed from us by Christ Himself…He said He would never leave us…everything is restored and back in perfect balance.

So we must answer back to the world the Church is here to bring us to Christ, and free us from the bondage of sin.

Likewise, there are clerics in the Church who have erred. The shepherd knows his flock and his flock know him. Believe me, as you go along…and you are in the right spirit and seeking truth in the right way, you will come to understand why Jesus Christ sustains the Church and not its clerics.

Its evangelizing presence and power is not from man and the edifices of the Vatican.

What you are experiencing is Jesus Christ present to the world through carnate men no different than ourselves.

I am so glad you contacted the office. Really, we truly rejoice when we have people coming in. As you can see here. if you make yourself known…you will be eventually inundated.

YES, the priest will be overjoyed. You will not only make his day, but his entire liturgical year a blessing. For real. I say that because of the year of formation for new comers.

 

[TwinMommy]

Going through some of your observations, Twinmommy, I was listening to Fr Mitch Pacwa about how the media is saying the Church should appoint a progressive who will update our centuries’ olds belief.

He also noted that when Christian churches and denominations start listening to the world to tell them what to do, their numbers go down.

When anyone listens to the world and its advice, and not the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, it goes down.

The Catholic Church through its teaching Magesterium, protects us from error. We learn the full gospel of Jesus Christ through the apostolic teachings. St. Peter in his second letter, exhorts us not to follow personal interpretation, but to hold fast to those who actually witnessed ‘His Majesty, Our Lord’.

Why fix something if it isn’t broken?

I think it is wonderful to have teaching that protect us from error. There is too much error out there.

 

[TwinMommy]

About the Mass. I studied under my archbishop for 5.5 years, parttime as I was raising 4 teens and caring for my ailing father at home.

My last two classes were ecumenism with Bishop Meeking who was on the Vatican 2 Council for Ecumenism, and the other, the Liturgy. I liked both very much.

But it was here that I began to understand what priests have said, if only Catholics – Catholics…would take time to see what the Mass is and does. It is my favorite study.

Problem is that so many Catholics are working and tending to so many things, and so when a class comes up in parish, they are unable to come.

If people would understand that the Mass is our literal exit from this world that is always trying to tell the Church what to do…when our focus is the life and teachings of Jesus Christ…and by life, we are incorporated into Jesus at Mass…blessed are those who can attend daily Mass!..the Mass is our recharger.

You go to Mass and enter into the Kingdom of Christ, you carry Him in you, you become more Christ like every day…you receive the Eucharist and thank Him…and you have alot of energy to go out the door to serve the world…you are not aware so much of Him working in you.

But isn’t God’s work His work?..Our focus is on Him. We give Him the glory.

We do so at Mass. The content and form, its spirit is the same as done by 100 AD.

Worship is to be dictated and designed by God, not man. How can we please and honor Him? You look at the Exodus…He told Moses how they were to worship Him and appease sin. Christ fulfilled all of it. He said, ‘Do this…in memory of Me’. The Mass is the Memorial…the new form of worship given us by Christ, not man.

You enter into God’s presence. You go to confession, not so much to the priest, but to Christ Himself. I still find going to confession hard and I am a cradle Catholic. But when you receive absolution, you will know so well it is Jesus Christ Himself who is blessing you and sanctifying you, and making the world and everything around you in perfect balance and harmony.

It is sin that warps the world around us. When we have sin removed from us by Christ Himself…He said He would never leave us…everything is restored and back in perfect balance.

So we must answer back to the world the Church is here to bring us to Christ, and free us from the bondage of sin.

Likewise, there are clerics in the Church who have erred. The shepherd knows his flock and his flock know him. Believe me, as you go along…and you are in the right spirit and seeking truth in the right way, you will come to understand why Jesus Christ sustains the Church and not its clerics.

Its evangelizing presence and power is not from man and the edifices of the Vatican.

What you are experiencing is Jesus Christ present to the world through carnate men no different than ourselves.

I am so glad you contacted the office. Really, we truly rejoice when we have people coming in. As you can see here. if you make yourself known…you will be eventually inundated.

YES, the priest will be overjoyed. You will not only make his day, but his entire liturgical year a blessing. For real. I say that because of the year of formation for new comers.

I can not wait to experience Mass. I have been reading up on it a lot to know why everything is done. Each time I read here on the forum anything about Mass, the beauty of it flies off the screen to me. I am seeing that it is not just about going to Mass on Sunday but having a life that focuses around God, focuses around Christ, and so much more. My life is changing forever and I couldn’t be more happy about it.

 

[crazzeto]

I can not wait to experience Mass. I have been reading up on it a lot to know why everything is done. Each time I read here on the forum anything about Mass, the beauty of it flies off the screen to me. I am seeing that it is not just about going to Mass on Sunday but having a life that focuses around God, focuses around Christ, and so much more. My life is changing forever and I couldn’t be more happy about it.

Mass is truly our opportunity to go and offer our selves to God rightly for his purpose. In fact I can’t think of any better way to do it. To go there, worthily with your fellow believers and participate in the liturgy provided to us by Christ him self, as Kathleen said it is truly awe-inspiring. In fact it was a study of the Mass that made me revert to the faith (I’m cradle catholic, but I effectively checked out in college + 5 extra years).

I think punctuating this point, is the way in which we approach it. We don’t have well dressed preachers, passionately shouting to well orchestrated contemporary music. You certainly won’t find many water bottles in the pews (any really, unless for a small toddler), there’s no day care, there are plenty of screaming babies (mine included, last Sunday at the Latin mass of all places).

We don’t come there with the expectation of what we will get out of it. It’s not a “I’ll keep going as long as I “feel spiritually fed”” affair. We go as an obligation to the 3rd commandment, we go to empty our selves. But strangely, the Mass ends up being about what God ends up doing for us, when approached in the spirit of submission, humility and reverence. As was stated, he “recharges” and heals us. We are fed in a way we never could have known before, and the graces we get are awesome.

 

[TwinMommy]

Mass is truly our opportunity to go and offer our selves to God rightly for his purpose. In fact I can’t think of any better way to do it. To go there, worthily with your fellow believers and participate in the liturgy provided to us by Christ him self, as Kathleen said it is truly awe-inspiring. In fact it was a study of the Mass that made me revert to the faith (I’m cradle catholic, but I effectively checked out in college + 5 extra years).

I think punctuating this point, is the way in which we approach it. We don’t have well dressed preachers, passionately shouting to well orchestrated contemporary music. You certainly won’t find many water bottles in the pews (any really, unless for a small toddler), there’s no day care, there are plenty of screaming babies (mine included, last Sunday at the Latin mass of all places).

We don’t come there with the expectation of what we will get out of it. It’s not a “I’ll keep going as long as I “feel spiritually fed”” affair. We go as an obligation to the 3rd commandment, we go to empty our selves. But strangely, the Mass ends up being about what God ends up doing for us, when approached in the spirit of submission, humility and reverence. As was stated, he “recharges” and heals us. We are fed in a way we never could have known before, and the graces we get are awesome.

Submission, humility and reverence are how I want to go. I need to really humble myself more, I know in my heart it has not been enough.

 

[KathleenGee]

Thanks, Twinmommie…

Good point, Crazzeto…

I was going to say the same thing…our worship is not emotional base. And because we are receiving Jesus Christ, why point out anything lacking in somebody else?

The Mass is not about us. It is about Jesus Christ. And He is fully present to us on the altar.

Our posture is of adoration. I know it hear it many times, that we must be singing louder and more enthusiastically. Here is a place and situation, where indeed one must preach to the choir. Our pastor a few times has told us to respond more enthusiastically. I hear other priests and pastors telling us to get with it with our singing…or that we appear like old bumps on the log to visitors.

Frankly, when I go to Mass, I am usually burned out. I just sit there like an old bump on the log and mumble and hardly sing. After having 4 kids, I finally know what it feels like getting old. When a baby screeches behind me when I least expect it, I jump and the sound is like using your fingernails on chalk board. But the focus is Jesus and the response is tolerance, so I just glue my eyes to the altar and things quickly quiet down anyway. And I like to hum with the music. Many times, when I am in the back and the choir can’t see me or pastor…I just keep book in pew and hum along.

Then when I get up to go out, I am refreshed and energized.

 

[TwinMommy]

Thanks, Twinmommie…

Good point, Crazzeto…

I was going to say the same thing…our worship is not emotional base. And because we are receiving Jesus Christ, why point out anything lacking in somebody else?

The Mass is not about us. It is about Jesus Christ. And He is fully present to us on the altar.

Our posture is of adoration. I know it hear it many times, that we must be singing louder and more enthusiastically. Here is a place and situation, where indeed one must preach to the choir. Our pastor a few times has told us to respond more enthusiastically. I hear other priests and pastors telling us to get with it with our singing…or that we appear like old bumps on the log to visitors.

Frankly, when I go to Mass, I am usually burned out. I just sit there like an old bump on the log and mumble and hardly sing. After having 4 kids, I finally know what it feels like getting old. When a baby screeches behind me when I least expect it, I jump and the sound is like using your fingernails on chalk board. But the focus is Jesus and the response is tolerance, so I just glue my eyes to the altar and things quickly quiet down anyway. And I like to hum with the music. Many times, when I am in the back and the choir can’t see me or pastor…I just keep book in pew and hum along.

Then when I get up to go out, I am refreshed and energized.

For the last few months I have been really not enjoying the “praise and worship” at church. It just felt off. Not like you could really focus on the words and any meaning with clapping, shouting going on. This conversion has been coming for sometime and I just didn’t know it.
I have never been to a church that has a choir, I am looking forward to it.

Kids make you tired LOL I would give anything for a nap right about now LOL

 

[KathleenGee]

Yes…I am going to take a nap, too. We finally have sun. I have to get my heirloom out of the way before city widens easement next to our house…waiting for junior to get home…

So, sounding a little like an alcoholic,…nobody is home right now so I have a right to go back to bed. I go back to work in so many hours…have to say that.

But at Mass, I never heard my kids. One Sunday, my youngest…who was always being told how cute he was…according to my pastor the next day, who also thought he was so cute an finally had to pick him up and hug him and swing him around one day, told me he was tap dancing like Shirley Temple in the pew. i didn’t know, I was so engrossed with the Mass. I loved how my pastor celebrated the Mass. My son grew up, and was most popular boy in class and has a most wonderful sense of humor. Pastor returned and looked over at him with my son’s knit cap with the strings hanging down on the side…and taking off on skate board.

They grow up so fast. Now he is gone most of time at school and work. They are truly our treasures and blessings from God.