‘Do you remember the wooden clickers used when we had to genufleck before entering the pews?’
To this day I genuflect as I cross each aisle of pews and before I enter the pew. Also make the sign of the cross as I drive past any RC Church. They made me a good-little-soldier in my mid sixties.
I attended Catholic grade school , high school and college and after a lifetime of being a Catholic, I don’t attend church anymore........too many priest pedophiles and now this. Organized religion lends itself to abuse. Religion is a personal thing between you and your God.
I do the very same to this day,not out of fear but out of genuine reverence.I went to Catholic schools,including a Catholic boarding school when my mother was very sick,and the nuns were certainly strict (some more than others) but I was never "abused"...physically,psychologically or sexually.Yes,I suppose I feared some of them to a degree but *today* the only thing I fear is God's judgment.That's the main reason I try (with only partial success) to live a good,decent life.