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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (44000)	12/26/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Your new parish sounds as if it may be a keeper. That was really very beautiful, what they did. I didn't even realize they still had incense and sung Mass. I mourned the passing of the old traditional LAtin Mass and all the rituals. Stacy, CW's girlfriend is a Catholic and I was asking her about her Confirmation.. Did you take a name? What? A saint's name-- for Confirmation? Didn't you have to pick a Saint? Uh---no. Well, did the Bishop ask you any questions? Were you nervous? No.... Did he slap you? Did you kiss his ring? Uhh-- no... I could tell she thought I was brought up in some weird cult that had nothing to do with Catholicism.. Do you remember these things? I feel as if I dreamed them now. I know what you mean about Cobe's current parish. It sounds right to me as well. The odd thing is that in very "high church" Episcopal churches I often feel more at home than in some of the Catholic churches. As for the Confirmation ritual, no, you didn't dream these things. I'm here to remember them as well. I wish you joy of that glass of wine and time to relax. You've earned them. One of the problems of the holiday season is that it can turn all too hectic and some of the very enjoyment of the family and the traditions gets lost in the whirl. So, enjoy!

To: Rambi who wrote (44000)	12/26/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Dear Penni, how on earth did you wind up with the grub? I logged on briefly and had to log back off as we were going out, and between then and now CharleyMike lost it and you got it. I hate to admit I didn't go to Confirmation. I went to the special religious training, but before the ceremony I got mad at the church for its position on women, in specific the refusal (at the time) to allow girls to assist at mass (altar girls). I decided if they didn't want me, I didn't want them. Most churches still don't allow altar girls, decades later, but some do. During those same decades, the Jews and the Protestants have allowed women to be ordained as rabbis and ministers, respectively, but that's never going to happen in the Catholic church, unless the doctrine of papal infallibility is renounced. The priest who buried Kerrie, my father's wife, used to have altar girls, until his bishop banned it.