A tradition still in the making

[aadler]

Saying my Rosary today, I happened to think of something. I entered the Catholic Church in 1996, the first member of my family to do so. During the time I spent with my kids (in that 10-year interregnum before my ex-wife became my again-wife), I’d say Rosaries with them more or less whenever we were together. Then, in 2007, my son came into the Church, and his mother with him — and she and I remarried at the end of the year — so now the entire family is Catholic, though my daughter remains not-officially-so, in that she’s living in Ireland and married to an Irish Catholic and that’s the only church she attends but never while in America stayed in one place long enough to finish the process of formally entering the church herself.

What occurred to me was that, though I said Rosaries with our kids, and my wife and I do them together now, I don’t think there was ever a single occasion when all four of us shared one. And, with my kids living on different continents now, from each other and from us, it could be a long while before we ever have the chance.

On the other hand, I still have the opportunity to do that with my granddaughter, currently the only member of my lineal family (my Irish son-in-law is a side-branch) to be born Catholic. Even if I’m not at all sure she knows the prayers in English.

Something to look forward to.

Comments

[vastid87.livejournal.com]

I agree, that is certainly something to look forward to.