tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post9124004706952638473..comments2023-03-18T06:31:13.168-05:00Comments on Go Sit In The Corner: Saying Your PrayersAGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241567321225195878noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-64028231544906785502007-03-26T17:19:00.000-05:002007-03-26T17:19:00.000-05:00Well, P-I, I believed that it was my fate, if the ...Well, P-I, I believed that it was my fate, if the papacy wasn't in the cards, to die a martyr at the age of 13, so I may have had a more vivid imagination back then (or was just downright stranger). <BR/><BR/>Have you ever been to the shrines in the U.S.? The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of the Snows, Our Lady of Knock, Our Lady of Fatima, of Mt. Carmel etc.? I can only imagine how strange they must seem to some (full-size mock-ups of the sites of Marian apparitions, with a church attached), and I wonder who visits them, besides my family and my mom's Carmelite friends - my sister and I even went to a shrine that had the Stations of the Cross, larger than life. They've always struck me as the American version of making a medieval pilgrimage.AGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11241567321225195878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-22121680375996829922007-03-26T14:54:00.000-05:002007-03-26T14:54:00.000-05:00Beautiful, AG.I suppose this is why I still recite...Beautiful, AG.<BR/><BR/>I suppose this is why I still recite my rosary in Spanish. Even though I can do it in Latin and English, Spanish was the sacred language growing up, and even now it feels like a piece of home for me.<BR/><BR/>I guess my own experiences growing up viz. religion were not as fantastic as yours (maybe you were a more pious kid) but we did have enough pictures of the Virgin of Guadalupe in our house that I saw her in my dreams. And, of course, I vaguely, vaguely remember going to the shrine of the Holy Infant of Atocha in Mexico.<BR/><BR/>I think converts are great, but sometimes I just wish they would listen to the traditional life of the Church more than they talk about the all-too-public disputed doctrines. This is especially true as our generation is perhaps the last to have sat at the feet of our parents and grandparents, thus learning how life was before the changes occured.Arturo Vasquezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09674281914540496859noreply@blogger.com