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catholic school?
When I was a kid I went to Catholic school til the 3rd grade. I was so scared of the nuns in their habbits, floating down the hall, and I actually believed that they knew God personally. Like they had dinner with him every night. When I looked at them it was with fear and awe. Did any of you go to Catholic school? Any funny thoughts or experiences from those olden days?
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Permalink Reply by LadyBug on
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Dot, they didn't have hair. They had to cut it all off when they entered the convent.
The St. Benedict Monastery in Indiana has a display of a young nun's hair, braided into a display something like a fancy braided work of art. They often made these creations when they joined, and gave them to their families. -
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Permalink Reply by Goldilocks46 on
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I went to Catholic school for the first 8 grades. I know what you mean about the nuns, they were formidable in appearance and they did seem set apart from the rest of us. I don't have any funny stories from those days, but I do know they worked us pretty hard.
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Permalink Reply by Snagg on
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I went to catholic school until I was "asked to leave" in the sixth grade. One of the worst experiences of my life. I truly did not try to cause trouble - Not at first, anyway. It simply happened when I would ask an innocent question, honestly trying to understand the lesson, and that question would wind up contravening standard dogma - And then I'd get punished just for asking the question.
I figured out what was going on by around 5th grade, the whole "Shut Up and BELIEVE!" ethic, and I'm sure that habitually referring to "St. Aloysius" as "St. Auschwitz" did nothing to enhance my standing with the faculty. Watching a seventy-year-old nun try to brain a 4th-grader with a baseball bat, for coughing in class, didn't exactly endear the joint to me, either. -
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