August 4, 2014

We stood with our sponsors.


Sacred Heart Church, Melrose Park, Illinois, February 1968. The last children to reach the altar in the Confirmation procession aren't wearing uniforms because they attended public school. Our church confirmed them after they'd completed CCD classes.

5 comments:

edutcher said...

When I was a kid, they just called it religious instruction.

(I had such a 6 year old crush on Sr Marietta)

Irene said...

I felt sorry for the public-school kids: religion classes on the weekends.

Meade said...

I like the way the rainbow in the photo above swirls right down into this one.

Irene said...

Happy chance!

edutcher said...

Irene said...

I felt sorry for the public-school kids: religion classes on the weekends.

Ours were after school.

Tuesdays, I think.