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| Deleted User | May 21 2009, 05:28 AM Post #31 |
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I can still recite the alter boy's parts in Latin. |
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| ngc1514 | May 21 2009, 05:42 AM Post #32 |
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I don't think the church would have accepted me as an altar boy. |
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| Deleted User | May 21 2009, 05:49 AM Post #33 |
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I would attend mass with my best girlfriend growing up. Her parents were immigrants from Portugal, and the congregation was made up of immigrants. I loved going with her to this beautiful old church. It really appealed to my sense of the theatric and dramatic. And ohh sooo mysterious. My childhood methodist church was dull as dishwater in comparison. |
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| Deleted User | May 21 2009, 05:51 AM Post #34 |
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I liked sneaking into the Methodist church my friends went to--it shared the same parking lot with the Catholic church, and going to the Lutheran church my grandparents attended--my dad had to convert to marry my mother. |
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| Deleted User | May 21 2009, 05:53 AM Post #35 |
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Our daughter married a boy in the Lutheran Church. She was not required to convert or even profess a belief. Just attend pre-marriage counseling. She said she got a lot of value from the counseling. |
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| Deleted User | May 21 2009, 06:14 AM Post #36 |
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Catholics are fussy. |
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| ngc1514 | May 21 2009, 06:23 AM Post #37 |
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On our first trip to France, we started out in Aix-en-Provence - an ancient town founded by the Romans around 120 BCE. The church - Cathédrale Saint Sauveur - has a bapistry going back to the Gothic period in the 6th century and the church is built on the site of the Roman forum. It's a lovely 12th Century Gothic cathedral. That was one of the churches where I tried to find a Tridentine Mass. What I found was a building with a priest, couple altar boys and almost no one sitting in the pews. I'd be surprised to discover there were more than 20 people at that morning mass and most of them older than I. Found the same thing at Bayeux, Rouen and Arles. These are HUGE cathedrals, but they sit almost empty on Sunday morning. Didn't try Notre Dame in Paris or Chartres since the timing to catch a mass wasn't right. The biggest crowd we saw in a church was at the Basilica of St. Nazaire in Carcassonne - an absolutely incredible medieval town. We were walking around the town after dinner and heard piano music coming from the cathedral. Decided to see what was going on and found the crowd was not there for services, but a music recital by the local high school students. Candace and I sat down and throughly enjoyed the students playing. Seeing those empty churches on Sunday morning was my first introduction to the dechristianization of Europe. |
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| ngc1514 | May 21 2009, 06:27 AM Post #38 |
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My wife is a lapsed Presbyterian, but wanted to get married in her church. We had to attend a couple sessions with the pastor and then he asked us if we had any special requests for the ceremony. He knew by this time that I was (cough cough) not very religious and was willing to go along with not mentioning Jesus during the ceremony, but he kinda balked when I asked if we could get any mention of god removed as well. |
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| Deleted User | May 21 2009, 06:30 AM Post #39 |
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Diarmaid MacCulloch's The Reformation: A History, spends some early chapters on the Gothic art of early European churches. Must be something to actually see it. As you keep saying, it inspired great art. |
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| Deleted User | May 21 2009, 06:53 AM Post #40 |
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I would love to see the great piles of rocks in Europe. However Alaska beckons me stronger... |
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