While I already knew our children live in a world that barely resembles the one I grew up in, this gal I met woke me up to the depths of that reality. It was not a compliment, ha?Ī conversation I had over lunch a couple of months ago has been working on me for a while and it made me think of those people.
I considered their clear preference for traditional hymns a skosh out of touch, but on the days when the pre-historic organist was in charge, I had to admit that “Holy God We Praise Thy Name” and other such hymns weren’t so bad, ha? I called those folks the “church people”. The old people (aka daily mass attendees) barely tolerated our guitar tunes. Helen Ann will teach you.” Filed under “useless information” in my brain to this day are all the verses to songs like “Be Not Afraid”, “Though the Mountains May Fall”, and “You are Near”. They simply said, “You’ll come after school and Sr. It mattered not to them that I had no skills and didn’t play an instrument or read music. The Franciscan sisters who ran the school informed me that I would be playing the guitar at these masses when I entered maybe the 5th grade or so. For those of you who may also have spent a few years in Catholic Schools back in the 70s and 80s, those were the days of guitar music from the Glory and Praise book. Candidly, I enjoyed the experience mostly because of the fact that it ensured one hour LESS of classroom time in my day. Catherine of SienaĪs a child, I attended a small Catholic school where we attended mass three times a week. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.” –St. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus.
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