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The Benedictine

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 19, 2024
677
2,700
New York by way of Paris, France
After Mass I plan on making a roast duck with mashed potatoes, asparagus, French cut green beans, and corn. Dessert will consist of lemon meringue pie, cherry pie, and dandelion cake.

I recently got back into the church due to a very vivid and morbid dream. Went to confession for the first time in 7 years. Had a lot to unload.
 

telescopes

Pipe Dreamer and Star Gazer
After Mass I plan on making a roast duck with mashed potatoes, asparagus, French cut green beans, and corn. Dessert will consist of lemon meringue pie, cherry pie, and dandelion cake.

I recently got back into the church due to a very vivid and morbid dream. Went to confession for the first time in 7 years. Had a lot to unload.
That's great to hear. Too many people travel their lives untethered and separate from God.
 

The Benedictine

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 19, 2024
677
2,700
New York by way of Paris, France
Welcome home brother!
Traveling to Wyoming to spend Easter with my mom and most of my siblings. I’m one of 8 kids. Catholic families tend to be large! Mass and then I’m sure there will be a feast. Mama doesn’t mess around when it comes to feeding a big group!
I'm from a family of 10! Glad hearing your plans and enjoy Easter!
 

wyfbane

Lifer
Apr 26, 2013
6,108
8,998
Tennessee
After Mass I plan on making a roast duck with mashed potatoes, asparagus, French cut green beans, and corn. Dessert will consist of lemon meringue pie, cherry pie, and dandelion cake.

I recently got back into the church due to a very vivid and morbid dream. Went to confession for the first time in 7 years. Had a lot to unload.
If all goes well, I will be processing 22 ducks and 20 or so chickens, so we may also have duck for Easter.
 

SSGT.

Can't Leave
Jul 7, 2024
386
2,096
Sealy Texas
Put a Brisket in the smoker, while the grandkids decorate the eggs our chickens have laid this week Saturday, after kids go to sleep, my wife, daughter and I will hide eggs.

We will get up early and go to an old-fashioned sunrise service to celebrate the morning The Risen Son. Then back home for the 2025 egg hunt and feast, probably a nap after we eat.
 

OzPiper

Lifer
Nov 30, 2020
7,427
40,867
72
Sydney, Australia
My older son is coming up with his family (and our 7yo granddaughter) so my wife has been shopping frenzily and filling up the fridge, freezer and pantry in anticipation.

My daughter-in-law has organised a yum-cha lunch for 35+ family and friends to celebrate my son’s 40th birthday

Even though my wife and I were brought up Catholics,, it will be a secular time for us.
 

jguss

Lifer
Jul 7, 2013
2,814
7,720
Even though my wife and I were brought up Catholics,, it will be a secular time for us.

My wife was raised Catholic and I was raised Presbyterian. We compromised by giving our kids little in the way of religious education. Sloth is the deciding factor in human affairs.

It caught up with me when I belatedly realized that a huge amount of the context through which Western culture must be viewed to be understood relies on at least a basic familiarity with the Judeo-Christian tradition. I did what I could to patch the holes but by then they were little pagans for whom Homer was a cartoon character and putti were child porn.
 

OzPiper

Lifer
Nov 30, 2020
7,427
40,867
72
Sydney, Australia
My wife was raised Catholic and I was raised Presbyterian. We compromised by giving our kids little in the way of religious education. Sloth is the deciding factor in human affairs.

It caught up with me when I belatedly realized that a huge amount of the context through which Western culture must be viewed to be understood relies on at least a basic familiarity with the Judeo-Christian tradition. I did what I could to patch the holes but by then they were little pagans for whom Homer was a cartoon character and putti were child porn.
We sent the boys to a Catholic primary school.
Just so they would get schooled in Christian values.
And were regular church attendees.

We decided they could form their own religious beliefs on starting secondary school.
They both married girls of Buddhist background. With solid family values.
So long as they lead good lives and have a healthy work ethic, that’s good enough for us.
 

telescopes

Pipe Dreamer and Star Gazer
We enjoyed with my siblings and my mother, making a varied lunch, each one bringing a different dish. As for going to mass, I also like it when it is empty, in silence, I like to contemplate the temple and talk with God, and the loved ones who left us one day. Christianus mihi nomen est, catholicus vero cognomen.
Saint Pacian if I recall.

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