{"id":84,"date":"2005-06-14T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-06-14T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T14:40:00","slug":"the-cradle-catholic-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Cradle Catholic Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to join the bandwagon started by PPK<\/a> and continued by Bettnet<\/a>, and mention the things I wish they’d taught me in CCD, and add also the things I wish they hadn’t “taught” me in CCD.<\/p>\n

1. I wish they’d taught me that Communion is the Body and Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus. I wish they had not taught me that it’s a way of symbolizing, by way of a meal, that I’m really accepted by the congregation as a member.<\/p>\n

2. I wish they’d taught me to read the Gospels. The one teacher who ever tried to get us reading the Bible was good, but I wish he hadn’t started us with Genesis. Matthew would have been much more instructive, both doctrinally and morally.<\/p>\n

3. I wish they’d taught me how to make a good examination of conscience. I wish they’d done that with the time that they spent having us draw God as a tall old man with a beard.<\/p>\n

4. I wish they’d taught me Church history so I could answer mistakes with knowledge. I wish they’d skipped all the current trendy stuff.<\/p>\n

5. I wish they’d used more books and fewer crayons.<\/p>\n

My list is shorter than Domenico Bettinelli’s, but that’s because he already took so many of the good ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to join the bandwagon started by PPK and continued by Bettnet, and mention the things I wish they’d taught me in CCD, and add also the things I wish they hadn’t “taught” me in CCD. 1. I wish they’d taught me that Communion is the Body and Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}