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Originally Posted by Starchild615
I only went to the Catholic School for 1 1/2 hours a week, and yes you are correct, it was for communion not confirmation.
I attended that around I'd say 1978-1979. They really did not teach us much about what you are saying. They would basically just take us to church for about 40 minutes and then back to the class for the remainder of the 1 1/2 hrs.
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It's a basic tenet of the faith. The Ascencion and the Assumption are Holy Days of Obligation, for starters. (That's days you have to go to church, for those who didn't grow up Catholic.) Perhaps they didn't teach it in your First Communion classes because, you know, they assumed you should already have known it, and the shock came not from impertinent questions but from shock at your basic ignorance of your own faith! (No offence meant, of course.)
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Now, you are correct, instead of getting in trouble for my question, she should have given me your answer.
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Yes, and I assure you that I'm not excusing her behaviour.
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I watch a lot of programs on history and discovery about the relics and bones and even the greatest professors say that there is no proof that they are the actual bones of the saints etc. The only story that intrigued me was the Story of St Bernadette, they exhumed the body approx 50 years later and they said it was still in tact. They have the body on display in a church in Lourdes. I would like to think it is real, but who knows. Then theres that whole Shroud of Turin thing, now they are carbon dating it and saying DaVinci made the shroud. Who knows, I guess it's all down to what we want to believe and have faith in.
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Since the Shroud of Turin is documented to have existed before Leonardo da Vinci did, let us say I find that latter unlikely. I'm also curious as to how you expect them to prove that relics are anyone's bones in particular without DNA. I grant you that, for the older and better-known saints, it's pretty much true that you can build about fifteen people out of the various relics. But there's limited proof that can be done.
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As far as the School, like I said, I only attended 1 1/2 hrs per week, I can ask some old friends I have that attended full time what they learned, I think that it would be interesting to find out. I love this kind of conversation, my brain thrives on questions, information and controversy.
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Well, I was raised Catholic and am currently Pagan, so I'm used to answering a
lot of questions.