My grandson told me he does not believe any of it and asked me, kindly, to stop praying for him. I said I would stop telling him about it. That is not quite the same thing and he knows it.
I mentioned at work that I had been to church and the room changed temperature. Nothing was said. Something was communicated. Pray I am not ashamed and also not strange about it.
I grew up praying in Portuguese and now I work and think in English and my prayers have become shorter and more polite. I want the long untidy ones back.
We have kept the Thursday vigil for eleven years. Some weeks there are forty of us and some weeks there are four. I have stopped counting and started just opening the door.
I am being baptised on the 23rd. I have invited my brother, who thinks this is a phase, and my mother, who thinks it is a judgement on her. Pray for the day and for the dinner afterwards.
Going to the Thursday vigil tonight for the first time. I have driven past it for a month.