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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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).
I've been trying to remember. I think CCD was for the kids who were in the parish but weren't going to the Catholic school. I don't remember having to go, because we had a Religion class.
We did have to go to class before Confirmation.
I think CCD was for the kids who were in the parish but weren't going to the Catholic school.
That's the way it was for our parish, too. The first time we met most of the parish-school students was when we got together for the Confirmation ceremony.