« Reply #12 on: Monday 23 January 23 22:59 GMT (UK) »
I can agree with most of that Annie except that i made my 1st confession and 1st communion at the same time aged 6. Confirmation followed at 12 or 13, when I chose my confirmation name (which i don't use other than as an occasional password!).
I'm RC, married in an RC church to a non-Catholic; my maternal grandparents, she a devout Catholic, he a Welsh Baptist with a lay Baptist minister father, married in the RC church (1922), and again, agreed to bring the children up as Catholics. My mum remembers her father setting off early every Sunday morning to walk some distance to chapel, she, her mother and sister leaving later to walk a shorter distance, but they always met up on the way home. Baptist ministers and the RC priest were all great friends of the family.
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