I went to a yoga class today and at the part of class where we say namaste I caught myself saying Amen. I blame it on the teacher’s voice which was low and poetically inclined. And when he spoke at the end I started spacing out a little and what I heard in my head […]
Tag: church
Happy Ash Wednesday
I went to Catholic schools for twelve years but I never fasted. All I knew was that people used to fast. Once upon a time it was custom for Catholics to fast from midnight Sunday until mass the next morning. In 1964 Pope Paul VI changed this to a one hour fast before receiving communion. […]
Church bells
A few weeks ago I spent the night at a convent in East Harlem. The nuns gave me a room on the third floor with a twin bed and a wardrobe and one high window and because of the angle all I could see outside was the sky and part of a church rooftop. It […]
Anne Foster 