I am curious.
How filled were your churches the night of 9-11? Ours was packed for a specially scheduled Mass.
It was very busy the Friday right after 9/11 on that Tuesday. I remember walking to my parish church for a special prayer service that Friday night and I had walked with my USA flag and people from home said hi and was pleased to see me with the flag.
My parish church was busy or packed.
At the time my church was 50 miles away from my home and I did not go there until the next Sunday. I remember my minister, a flaming liberal, did not give a satisfactory sermon the next Sunday. I felt worse after going and it was kind of the end of the end for me and that church. As far as the churches around here, I don’t know, I was at home glued to the TV.
I wish I could remember that sermon but it is probably better than I don’t.
My church’s morning Mass on 9-12-01 looked like a Sunday.
I didn’t have a church then.
But since Friday was a “Day of Prayer” for the nation, I went to a Lutheran (my denomination) church near work at lunch time for their special service. I don’t know how their church normally is, but it was a decent-sized church with maybe 1/2 to 3/4 full.