Did none of the Catholics here have CCD (basically after-school or evening Catholic Bible study for kids thru teens, once a week if I remember correctly)? I thought that was a de rigeur part of growing up Catholic.
Nope. I always thought Sunday school type of things were a Protestant thing, because the only people I knew who had them were the Protestants.
I did have religion class in elementary school that prepared us for 1st communion, confession and confirmation. It was a formerly church run school that was taken over by the public school board, but still had vestiges of the catholic school in it. It also help that there was another elementary across the street where most of the non-Catholics went. My Jr. High similarily taught a "values" class that was pretty Christian centric. (And similarly, my Jr. High was right next door to another Jr. High that the Non-Catholic school students were streamed into.) All those schools are gone now, and have been replaced by bigger, amalgamated school.
The Catholics in my school got to leave an hour early on Tuesdays to go to CCD. They even got bused/walked over!
We didn't read the bible in/for CCD, but we did learn the ten commandments and memorize prayers and some of what used to be called catechism - rote answers to standard questions about Catholic beliefs and practics - in prep for confirmation.
I didn't know what John 3:16 referred to until a Baptist friend told me in middle school.
TNR should back off of Sedaris or I will cut them.
Seriously?
You mean a humorist exaggerates for comedic effect?
Say it ain't SO!
To be clear, I never exaggerate. I hyperbolerate.
Well, if even some of that stuff is true, he's had a wild life.And I'm kinda glad, for his own sake, that some of it was not. Cause it would kill the comedy if I felt too bad for him, you know?
Next they will tell me Mark Twain never saw a frog-jumping contest.
David Sedaris is not actually gay. He lives with his wife and three children in Rochester, Minnesota, where he coaches Little League and is a deacon in his church.
This had me choking on my water before he admitted he made that one up.
I was so hoping TNR had meant The National Review. THEM I expect that from.
sigh
David Sedaris is not actually gay. He lives with his wife and three children in Rochester, Minnesota, where he coaches Little League and is a deacon in his church.
That pretty much describes my co-coach, who also runs a Boy Scout troop
and
attends church for like three hours every Sunday. He's the anti-Sedaris.
TNR is subscription, but I found the Sedaris piece on Google's cache: [link]
Oh, sadly, that's only page 1 of 3.
Kathy, stop following around my brain!
Hee, and I had actually originally typed "Amonhotep" for Akhenaten, but thought I was getting it tangled up with The Mummy!
My CCD classes were taught by laity. I don't think I met a nun until my 20s when I lived upstairs from some. They stole my electricity. Unintentionally, I'm sure)
CCD for us involved textbooks touting peace, love and understanding, but they rarely mentioned the bible.
We didn't read the bible in/for CCD, but we did learn the ten commandments and memorize prayers and some of what used to be called catechism - rote answers to standard questions about Catholic beliefs and practics - in prep for confirmation.
What they said (except for the electricity-stealing nuns, but considering what they usually have to live on, I wouldn't be surprised if they just viewed it as a gift from God). I learned more about the Bible in my theology classes in college than anyplace else.
ETA: we had our CCD classes after 9:00 mass on Sunday morning and they lasted about an hour. Zoo mass was at 10:30, same time as the following mass ("zoo mass" was the kiddy mass held in the school cafeteria next door to the church itself).
