2016-06-30

  • You're experienced at removing wax from clothing.
  • In a blind taste test, you can identify different brands of tofu.
  • You don't flinch when someone throws water at you.
  • You kiss a man's hand more than three times every Sunday.
  • You know how to address the wife of a priest in more than three languages.
  • You know how to say "Christ is risen!" in more than four languages.
  • You can immediately come up with the date 13 days ago.
  • Your children think of monasteries as vacation destinations.
  • You know which chocolate candies contain no milk products. (Go Junior Mints!)
  • You are 20 and already have varicose veins.
  • You are 80 and can still touch the floor.
  • You don't mind going around with an oily forehead.
  • You bow reflexively before hirsute men in black dresses.
  • You have memorized the 50th Psalm, but it's from four different translations.
  • You save toenail clippings in hopes of ... well ... you know ... glorification.
  • Your spouse is concerned about whether the carbon stains on the ceiling are hurting the retail value of the house.
  • You forget to set your clock forward in the spring and get to church an hour late, and it's still not halfway through.
  • Fellow parishioners forget to set their clocks back in the fall and get up an hour early, yet they still arrive late.
  • Your children think nothing of Sundays without breakfast.
  • At the end of Holy Week, you have rug burns on your forehead.
  • Before you pray, you say a prayer.
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