A client and I were chatting about making friends 'years ago' when she was a young mom. She said neighbors were important, but that she made the most connections in Christian Mothers, the work-horses of the parish. They did the Bazaar, cleaning the church (washing/ironing the communion rail *cloth), organizing school trips, financing new equipment, making new vestments--it was all on the capable shoulders of the Christian Mothers.
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| A photo of the Christian Mothers membership in 1962 at St Josephs Church/School in Pierz, Minnesota. |
I don't think I know any of these women,but the pic was too cool to ignore. Usually, you didn't have to be a mom to join. Are any of them YOUR mother?
* Extra credit: "...a Communion cloth (alternatively called a "domenical," a "manutergium," a "houseling cloth" or a "communion veil") was employed to catch the Host if dropped by the priest, and in some cases to keep the communicant's bare hand from touching the Host".
Extra credit X2--Whatdya call the little gold tray with a handle that the altar boy held under your chin?
Extra credit X2--Whatdya call the little gold tray with a handle that the altar boy held under your chin?
A paten. Everybody knows that.
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PS - Do I win twice as much as last time?
Naw...but you do get extra credit!
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