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[mari4212]

Somewhat belated, but I made it back home safely. We didn't get the house they were looking at, but there's still a lot of houses we can look for.

And I know I'm home, I started polishing sliver and cleaning my family's microwave out. I come home and clean. This should stand as proof that I'm more than slightly insane.

Grades got posted for my Judaism class, and I got an A on the exam. Glee.

Church was great, but I'll let glacierscout talk about our Sunday School class for today. He does it well, and he was taking notes. I did end up getting hugged by several of the kids there, my other way of telling that I'm home.

And tonight we're having a rather early St. Patrick's day supper, but this was the time we could all make it. Corned beef, cabbage, and soda bread! Yayness.

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[pikacharma.livejournal.com]

THE SODA BREAD NEEDS TO BE GREEEEN!

And can I come to your Sunday School class and be an example of what happens when you don't go to church? XP

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

Technically, we're Irish Protestants, not Irish Catholics, so if we were going to dye the bread anything, we should dye it orange.

You can come to my church, but no one's going to blink twice at you, no matter how far you try to go to shock us. We'd probably ask you if you wanted to do some of the readings in front if you ever came back.

My church is full of the good kind of crazy.

[pikacharma.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've heard the orange on St Paddy's thing before, but just in passing and I thought it was some sort of joke I didn't get. What's the reason behind that? (I'm actually not trying to be a smartass here (for once XP). Just curious)

And the scary thing is, around here, I don't generally try to shock people. I just walk into the room and they start calling the Sightings hotline. XP BTW, I'm *really* sorry if my first comment came across as rude. I was trying to make fun of myself, not your church, and I apologize if there was a misfire.

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I didn't take offense. I'm pretty used to your sense of humor, I took it as a rather funny joke. But really, if you did walk in, my church is full of rather fun and insane people, we'd take you as is and enjoy you thoroughly.

Orange on St. Patrick's comes from the tensions between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants. The Catholics associate themselves with the green, protestants, especially some militant protestants, are called orangemen. And while Dad was born Irish Catholic, our family is protestant, Episcopalian to be specific. I really don't know enough about Irish history to explain all of it, but that's the basic idea.

[glacierscout.livejournal.com]

Actually, Pika, somebody tried that a few years ago. A young lady showed up in our church about eight years ago, and sat down by herself. She had on her goth black clothes, spiked collar and belt, sleeveless black blouse to show off the tattoos, and piercings through ears, nose, lips and tongue. She got greeted nicely during the service, asked back for coffee after church, and invited back the next Sunday.

When she showed up then, it was much more conservatively dressed. She joined our church a month or two later. Then she told us that her family was none too conventional, that she always was attracted to religion, but that the church she had grown up with didn't take too kindly to her mother's multiple partners, and neither did other churches she had encountered. She had heard good things about ours, and decided to see if she could shock us out of accepting her the first Sunday, before she had any emotional investment in us.

She worshipped with us for three years before leaving to go to school in Austria. She even got elected to our parish council. So we're serious about inviting you to read - if you'd like to.

The orange comes from William of Orange (of William and Mary fame). The irish Catholics thought that Ireland could be free following the overthrow of Cromwell, byt William wouldn't let them go without a fight. The Irish Catholics got beat at the Battle of the Boyne. Ever since then (almost 400 years), the Protestants parade through Catholic neighborhoods wearing orange on the anniversary of the battle. it goes over about as well as a color-coordinated pastel layout would on your journal page.