Posted on 07/13/2015 6:22:25 AM PDT by Salvation
My penmanship was awful...the nuns tried to fix that by knuckle cracks from the pointer. Just made things worse. Though my penmanship is leaps and bounds better than my engineer son (masters) who types everything and hates to have to sign anything.
The loss of penmanship is tragic. Over the 4th of July, I saw the original “Star Spangled Banner” words at the Maryland Historical Society. Even while watching a battle, his handwriting was gorgeous - a work of art, really.
Oh! The clicker! LOL!!! I’d forgotten about that!!! I wonder if they got those from the same Catholic supply house they got their Holy Cards from.
When we would go camping at the beach with friends in the 60’s, we always packed a shift dress and a kerchief for our heads for Mass on Sunday. We wouldn’t have dreamed of going to church in shorts, let alone short shorts or even jeans. These were resort towns on Lake Michigan, so it would have been easy to just go in beach clothes. We had too much of a sense of decorum in those days and we were kids.
It was not a “dress”.
I just don’t see the point of this post. Was it supposed to be funny?
My 8th Grade nun was a real character. An older Irish born nun who looked all the world like a cross between Winston Churchill and a bulldog (same thing right?). In our catechism class she was more fire and brimstone than any priest I had ever heard. She would start low and slow and work up to a loud crescendo.....like Hitler used to do. All in a thick Irish Brogue. “Don’t go to hell with a single mortal (pronounced martal) sin.....go to hell with a million martal sins.....GO TO HELL GLORIOUSLY!!”
I liked her, she was a real character ....but I had a surname that ended in a vowel so she only gave extra help to the O’Brians and Caseys, to get into a good Catholic HS.
Oh, my! She sounds a rip! Yeah, some of those old broads played favorites.
I wonder where they got them from. Man, I hated that sound. And they looooved using them. Since they couldn’t yell in church that was their method of revenge!
Comfortable: sandals, nice shorts and a button down collared causal shirt.
I'm pretty sure Jesus really doesn't care what I wear to worship Him...
I sold my cloak....so all I wear is a sword
Luke 22:36
LOL!
“We’re Eastern Orthodox... They even say:
No chewing gum
Don’t sit with your legs crossed”
HAHAHA! I know of what you write. In the Orthodox Church, as with many other things your mileage will vary a bit. Some jurisdictions are more lenient (the Greeks and Antiochians), while others are a bit more tightly wound (ROCOR)). I have seen parishes where a young man was communed in what looked like athletic shorts and a tank top, which I will be honest I thought was pushing the envelope. And I have also been in parishes where women are not admitted if they are wearing pants or their head is uncovered. But in general immodest and/or excessively casual dress is discouraged. And women are usually asked to go very light with the lipstick because cleaning the icons can be a bear.
The main thing is NOT putting the cart before the horse: such as expecting the visiting unbeliever to ‘look respectful’ to God and everyone else.
When my wife started taking an interest in attending church (not long after we were married, 36 yrs ago), she would wear dresses at least knee high, and no cleavage showing. THEN:
She was born again, and little by little (old things are passed away, all things become new), she started wearing the dresses and skirts sufficiently below the knee, so that when she sat down, there was no worry. And soon it was everywhere, not just church services. The snug jeans and slacks were gone. I loved how she looked in them, but so did all the other men that saw her, because her figure was fabulous (and at 58, still is, which she credits partially on never taking the ‘pill’).
She loves the Lord, and knows that she isn’t to dress in a fashion that promotes lustful tendencies. I am very blessed to have such a wife.
Myself........I’ve always been trim and fit, except for my first year or so as an OTR truck driver (all the sitting was enabling a ‘spare tire’ to appear. I nipped it in the bud). But, before I was born again, I too, wore clothes that men wore to be ‘noticed’. There was an SNL skit way back then, though comical, really did point out how men dressed for women. It starred Steve Martin and Dan Akroyd as the Czechoslovakian brothers that wore their clothes tight to impress women. Funny as it was, it was true, for the girl I had been dating (before meeting my future wife) loved to see the reaction of other young women seeing me walk by or dancing at a disco (yes, you may laugh now). She was fairly strict Baptist, or at least I thought.
Even then, though not born again, I wouldn’t dress that way at the old country Calvinist church I attended back those days, for I knew church was about God, and not distracting the young women and teenage girls. But, as that church grew increasingly liberal, I noticed the dress code go liberal as well, and my attendance became a rarity.
Married my wife a year or so later, and after 4 years, the Lord pricked our hearts, we saw the truth of rebirth, and obeyed Acts 2:38. And as she was changed inside and out, so was I; no more ‘dressed to impress’ women, and no more discos!! (LOL!) God took that desire away. Praise God!
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