Parish life in the past
Young people are often amazed when they hear how different parish life was when their parents and grandparents were young. So much has changed in the practice of religion. Of course, many of those practices were not religious at all but were merely superstitions or pishogues, and many of them were driven off by the archangel Solas - the electric light. Even grannies and granddads forget how it was until they are reminded.
For instance, do
you remember that characteristic "bonk!" sound that was heard from time to time during
Mass when the head of a fainting child banged into the pew in front? Of course you do,
but you haven't heard it for a long time, have you? Not since fasting from midnight was
abolished.
Now is your chance to remind us all of the way it was. Why not put pen to paper or
fingers to keyboard and write out a wee something. Post it or hand it in to the parish office
or e-mail it to the communications team. You will find contact details on the
Contact Us page. It doesn't have to be a 10,000-word
opus or of such major significance that RTE will want to make a documentary out
of it. Little things are also important and if you think your story is interesting
or humorous, we will too.
So send it in to us and we will let everyone enjoy it.
To encourage you we have put up a few stories which you can access from the column on the left. Most of them were reproduced from books on Fenor, including the latest book, 'Fenor 2010 - Growing and Changing'. Stories from Dunhill and some new stories are on the way. We hereby exhort grannies and granddads to compel their offspring to read these stories. It will do them good and let them see what a tough life you had and how easy it is for them now, and how ungrateful they are, and how they should appreciate you more, and ... You know the routine!
