Great post...had to laugh at “daughter said the baptisms weren’t really necessary.”...good for you to keep the faith alive! Secularism has had its effects and this generation and the next needs faith more than ever.
Granddaughter was in my church’s Christmas play. She is not Catholic, nor is daughter, no son-in-law. Because they live across the street from me, they are often involved in some fashion with my church.
Many are trying to coax Melissa-daughter- to become Catholic but I don’t see it working. Granddaughter, on other hand, knows all the Catholic hyms, she sings with the choir, she was a Wise Man and Elizabeth in the Christmas pageant and , I say modestly, was best of all.
Granddaughter knows everybody, she regularly dips the holy water and does sign of cross, she holds her hands high and says the Lord’s prayer, proudly.
She’s a little Catholic girl as one can plainly see and I don’t think it will leave her.
Daughter is Christian, very much, but was involved with Baptist church in Baltimore, very involved.
The Catholic church just has no appeal. She only went to Easter vigil with me because I asked her to, didn’t want to go alone. Kaitlyn usually goes to church with me but the Vigil, with the candles, the firepit, singing in the choir, I just couldn’t take her alone.
Which is no mind, just idle chatter as I sit in the quiet before all the storms come in.
And Father Jim was sure in his glory, singing all the priest parts, congratulating everybody, lighting candle, blow out candle, light it again. I’m mad at him for saying the choir talks too much before masses-which we do.
So he makes a big deal of telling us how wonderful we were. Then there was the baptism, then the first communion, all this on Easter vigil.
I also sang on Holy Thursday AND Good Friday. Father Jim stops during processional to light KAITLYN’s candle and all of a sudden Kaitlyn got scared....
....It was nice, I am not complaining, but I been thinking about all things Catholic of late.