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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:37 AM Original message |
Did anyone else go to Catholic grade school in the 50's. Remember All Souls Day indulgences? |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. I did attend Catholic school then, but I don't remember that specific ritual. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
2. I thought today was a Holy Day of Obligation and we got the day off |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. It was 11/1 |
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sueh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. All Souls Day is Nov 2. |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Nov 1 is All Saint's day, isn't it? |
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rox63 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
3. I went to Catholic school in the 70's |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:42 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. So did I. I never heard anything about Indulgences during those years. nt |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Maybe we used up all the indulgences by then. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Same with me--don't remember indulgences. |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. What does this have to do with priests touching little boys? |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
18. I see you made sure you were the first to bring it up. So tell us, why... |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:38 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. No one else brought it up yet. |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:48 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. If those priests would spend their time asking for indulgences... |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 01:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Oh, let me guess-- |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
5. I went through the ritual in the early 60's |
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symbolman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:32 PM Response to Reply #5 |
31. Jesus Christ, Bosshog! |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:48 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Sister Martha Marie was about 300 years old in 1964 |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
6. I remember that! |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
7. As I recall the indulgences were for people already dead...I recall |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. That's what I remember, too. I went in the early 60s. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
9. Didn't we have both All Souls and All Saints days? |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:49 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. We had to go to mass on All Saints day then got the day off I think. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:51 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yep that's right |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:56 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. I don't think we got the day off -- it would have been a real problem |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
16. my father died 10 years ago today |
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michaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
19. I am the parish secretary here at one of the Catholic churches. |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:44 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. My purpose was not to offend anyone. It is just that in my family I decided that Catholicism did no... |
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ourbluenation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
30. michaz - do the kids not get today off anymore? I always loved it cuz it was the day after halloween |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
20. I was raised nominally Presbyterian. As you can imagine, we didn't |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
22. Did the nuns get some sort of commission on a head count for the day? |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
25. I went to Catholic school in the 50's |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
27. I thought that everyone went to purgatory |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
28. We also got All Saints Day off |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
33. Heaven upgraded its computer system in the 1980s and sadly, lost all the indulgence data |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
34. All I remember is the nuns with those GD clickers. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand...ugh... |
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Ino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 02:38 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. LOL! I'd forgotten about the clickers! |
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