mardi 11 juin 2013
Saturday morning, Alain and I dragged ourselves out of bed at 7 am and drove to Toulon for our niece's first communion. She goes to a Catholic school, even though they aren't particularly Catholic, and I guess Saturday was the semi-annual mass baptism/ first communion. Alain is her godfather. It was a bit difficult choosing a present as we were told 'no jewelry' (from the school) plus 'no christian stuff' (from his sister). Hum.
Alain finally went to a bookstore and bought a fictional girl's diary from some uprising in France in the 1870's and "Dictionnaire des rebelles". Good ol' anti-establishment frenchisms.
We got to the church around ten, and met up with both sets of grandparents. It was a modern church, which I didn't really like. Packed with people. Alain's sister said we would have to 'do something' unspecified. It turns out we didn't have to do anything at all other than stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down, kneel, stand up, sit down, the usual.
Man, she adores her uncle.
No pictures allowed during the ceremony, but after it was over we snuck back in and took some pictures in front of the altar, until the nuns starting cleaning up around us.
Afterwards, we went back to their house (in the middle of a major renovation- they had to move out for three months while workers added a mezzanine).
After lunch, they sent Manon to her room for awhile while they put together a tower of cupcakes. She was thrilled.
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2 commentaires:
What fun; family events like these are wonderful opportunities to get together and celebrate family. We have not come across very many modern Catholic churches.
At first, I thought Manon was you and I said to myself "That's a helluva facelift she got!"