I feel like you essentially crawled into my head and then wrote this post. This is me EXACTLY! Right down to the love of the Prayer of St. Francis. I even had to have an extra song in my wedding just so we could have this played (I married a non-Catholic so we could only have a ceremony and not a mass, which meant less song opportunities). I was thrilled that he chose the name Francis.
I used to be a much better Catholic. My parents still go weekly and I did, too, even into young adulthood when the choice was actually mine to make. I read a giant book about saints in high school because I wanted to. I was very active in my college's Newman Center and I took a really awesome history class on Christian Thought, which I still have the notes from tucked away somewhere with my Bible. That class probably opened my mind enough to make me take a deeper look at Catholicism (it was taught by a very Catholic professor, by the way, who was also active with the Newman Center).
I've also toyed with the idea of switching to Unitarian, but I honestly just don't feel like making a major commitment to any religion right now. Plus part of me likes the tradition and familiarity. I'm still pissed off about them changing a bunch of the responses. I wonder if that's how people felt back when they changed it from being in Latin.
I have to make the decision to send Nora to "church school" or not next year and I figure I'll probably commit to it through third grade, which is truthfully just so my mom can have the joy of Nora in a first communion dress. If Nora wants to keep it up after that, I'll let it be her choice. Henry will be starting up by then anyway so I'm stuck for at least six years. I can't help but think of it as yet another thing I'm stuck carting the kids to.
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Date: 2013-03-14 03:20 pm (UTC)From:I used to be a much better Catholic. My parents still go weekly and I did, too, even into young adulthood when the choice was actually mine to make. I read a giant book about saints in high school because I wanted to. I was very active in my college's Newman Center and I took a really awesome history class on Christian Thought, which I still have the notes from tucked away somewhere with my Bible. That class probably opened my mind enough to make me take a deeper look at Catholicism (it was taught by a very Catholic professor, by the way, who was also active with the Newman Center).
I've also toyed with the idea of switching to Unitarian, but I honestly just don't feel like making a major commitment to any religion right now. Plus part of me likes the tradition and familiarity. I'm still pissed off about them changing a bunch of the responses. I wonder if that's how people felt back when they changed it from being in Latin.
I have to make the decision to send Nora to "church school" or not next year and I figure I'll probably commit to it through third grade, which is truthfully just so my mom can have the joy of Nora in a first communion dress. If Nora wants to keep it up after that, I'll let it be her choice. Henry will be starting up by then anyway so I'm stuck for at least six years. I can't help but think of it as yet another thing I'm stuck carting the kids to.