On this beautiful Sunday, while I was cleaning, I realized that...
Religious items touch my soul...
Having gone to St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic grammar school & having lived on the same block as my church & my school...the nuns & priests were our neighbors. As children, we (my sister & brothers), would play in the church parking with our friends. We were social kids always...talking to the priests & nuns.
...Do you think we may have been bothering them??? ;)
One Sunday...my brother, Louis, my sister, Lorraine, & I went to Mass & during the Homily, Monsignor Cleary, asked me (I was the oldest & maybe about 9 or 10 years old at the time) why we weren't at Mass the week before??? I stood up & said "We didn't have any clean clothes". OMG...I lied to the priest...in church no less !!! In the cobwebs of my mind I thought...I dreamed that...but NOOOOO my sister reminded me that "YESSSSS" I did say that !!!
Another incident occurred, when I was in the second grade. It was the day before I was to receive First Holy Communion. I was so nervous & I was playing in the parking lot of the church. I must have been telling Monsignor Cleary all my fears about receiving First Holy Communion, because he took me into the Sacristy & let me taste the host...What a relief it was to find out that it actually tasted a bit like Styrofoam.
There are so many incidents growing up on the same block as my school & church. Another occurred 20 years later...My first grade teacher, Sister Lucy Ann, was also our neighbor's daughter. She was by far my favorite teacher & I always tell my sister, Lorraine, that everything I learned I learned in first grade.
On a different note...
Thank You Sister Lucy Ann !!!
Well, twenty years later, when we opened our store (Town & Country Gifts), who comes walking into our store...my fist grade teacher! She just so happened to work for the bank across the street from our store. It is such a small world!!! I found out that she never became a Nun...She never took her final vows. She had gotten married & divorced & remarried.
I wondered, but didn't ask...
Was she still practicing the Catholic faith ???
So today, while cleaning I took a few photos of some our "Favorite" vintage religious pieces:
Madonna & Child...
St. Francis Planter...
St. Anthony Planter
Holy Family Plaque...
Serenity Prayer Plaque...
Finding Comfort,
Kathleen Sforza
Lorraine Sforza Razzano
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