Remembrance of Days Past
Today, I went with my sister and her 2 kids to the Lordship Community Church Fair. Just walking into the basement of that church brings back so many memories. While I was brought up Catholic and belonged to Our Lady of Peace 2 blocks away, we always went to the "Protestant" church fairs, and sometimes to services there (if we slept over a friend's house who belonged). We questioned the wine served because it was grape juice, and I guess I'm going to hell because on Communion Sunday, I drank it. My Mom encouraged us to participate in other denominational services because she belonged to the "Protestant youth group because the Catholic one was horrible". They had more fun being kids as Protestants - played games, went on trips, met cute boys. She always said all the Catholic kids did was clean the church. So I joined the youth group at the LCC, and also was part of the OLOP group for a while. We met in the basement of the LCC, watched movies, pl...