The Obama Logo in stained glass

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59. Dang! No I didn't. But it was a very nice thing - even though we didn't understand Latin

and we were too young to get into the Latin classes only offered to upperclassmen.

Besides, in our standard Missals, as you opened to any page to follow along with the Mass, one side of the page was in Latin and the English translation was on the other side of the page. So, no problemo!!! I probably learned a little Latin by default simply because of that.

This was when I was in grade school. But I remember it quite fondly. Art major here - so the visual arts factored BIGTIME in my youth. Still do. I even appreciated how the priest spent most of the Mass with his back turned to the congregation, always hunched over the altar behind him. No problem!!! More time for daydreaming! Sort of a "okay, Father, you do your thing over there and I'll do my thing over here and I won't bother you or make noise and you can just do your little thing with your back turned. Go ahead and ignore me. PLEASE go ahead and ignore me ('cause that way, you won't see me - ahem - DAYDREAMING!!!)!!!

AND there was none of this frenetic stand-up/sit-down/kneel/stand-up/kneel/stand-up/sit-down/stand-up/kneel crap all the time - making you get up and down and up and down for what seemed like 90 times per Mass, and you could never just settle in and relax and - well - dammit - DAYDREAM! I felt like a marionette or a bouncing ball half the time. SO annoying! Can't I just kinda sit here for the duration and kinda just hang out and be mellow? And can you light up some more of that neat spicy incense again while yer at it?

Confession time! We used to grab a few of the wafers from the chalice at the back of the church as you entered. You'd pick one, put it it in the chalice because you were going to have it during Communion. We usually pinched a few extra to snack on during the proceedings. Well, they weren't consecrated yet so we figured no harm, no foul. And one of the kids in the neighborhood who was an altar boy said his friends all called them "Jeezits"!!! STILL makes me laugh! All this stuff still makes me laugh!

You do realize why you go to Catholic school, don't you?

To generate material!!!!!!!