Your Personal Venting Space 3: Tokyo Drift

Yeah, that's why I said "equivalent" and not "is". From my understanding, it serves the purpose to Catholics that a Bar or Bat Mitzvah serves to Jewish people.

Can I have??? one day??? where I am not In Pain???

It was a joint combo between my church and the other church in my city, and both are pretty chill. One is pretty progressive as far as I know (aka I have to deal with my mom complaining about it lol)
I know I did some community service for it because I did some religious education classes to prep and we made a bunch of cakes for this local food pantry that serves weekly meals, idk how much else. Honestly my memory's not great, especially of that time period.

Also thank you, COVID, for leading to all of the church fairs I like to go to getting cancelled :))) if any of the late fall/early winter ones are, I'll actually have to spend sizable chunks of money on Christmas gifts as opposed to far less, ew.

Ha, I can now cross "get my path blocked by cows" off of my Wisconsin bingo card!

you choose a saint or two to take as a patron and a namesake.

wHat dOes tHiS mEan? sorry I know next to nothing abt being Catholic

Basically you're supposed to look into various saints that interest you, and choose to take their name. When the bishop calls you up, they would say (using myself as an example) "Evelyn Chiara-Joan [Redacted]", since I chose Joan of Arc and Chiara Luce Badano (who's technically not a saint but I got special permission since I really vibed with her). I believe you can also just choose a character from the Bible and not a saint, but it's usually saints. And then basically those saints will be your guides/protectors.

Personally I've always been really connected to Joan of Arc both in a religious and historical sense, so that was a no-brainer for me. I then learned about Chiara Badano during religious ed and really connected with her too, and so that's why I chose those two. Although that was before I learned about St. Edith Stein, who I also really connect to. Sorry if this is boring lol I really love learning about the saints-

I consumed like a dozen books on saints instead of paying attention in church as a child
Still do tbh, I used to sit in the choir loft and sneak out into the church library since big congregations of loud people is a big anxiety thing for me. I'd sneak back in for communion though.

I would use [M-name] [M-name]
(it's a biblical name)

"Um…. [M-name] [M-name] [Last name]??"

"Are you sure you want both to be the same?"
"Yeah, yeah, let's just get it over with. I don't have all day."

Fun game to play during your brother's confirmation: take a sip of water every time there's a Mary, John, Anne, Francis, or Elizabeth. You'll stay very hydrated.

I know a guy who's saint was St. Homobonus.

Do you guys get randomly happy when you go to a stationary store or a bookstore? I went to Mai Do today and being surrounded by brush pens and pretty notebooks gave me so much dopamine.

Unironically, 75% of my dopamine and serotonin in the past year and a half has been from going to book stores. I went to one this morning and I felt happier than I had all week. They just instantly raise my spirits, there's something so powerful in being surrounded by books.

I miss going to bookstores. All of them are closed here. Luckily stationary has a similar effect.

I know a guy who's saint was St. Homobonus.

Who dat boy?

A teammate's brother

Yeah, that's why I said "equivalent" and not "is". From my understanding, it serves the purpose to Catholics that a Bar or Bat Mitzvah serves to Jewish people.

I meant to add more but left for the night.
It is “simply” one of the Sacraments, like baptism. It is the laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit. It is done at the same time as baptism by some, but the Catholics have it as more of a coming of age deal. This possibly stems from the fact that the bishop is the one to do this, not the priest, and a lot of the time people had to wait for the bishop to come, making it later in life. It isn’t only the Catholics, as far as I am aware, that have you do community service (which seems like earning a sacrament but correct me, Jyn, if I’m wrong).
As for patron saints, Idk a lot about that. Mine is St. Dominic. All my sibling’s are the name of their first or middle name.

My diocese's bishop died like 4 months before confirmation time, they had to swear in the new one kinda hastily

There's a lot of sort of little things that are just piling up and I just don't wanna

Unironically, 75% of my dopamine and serotonin in the past year and a half has been from going to book stores. I went to one this morning and I felt happier than I had all week. They just instantly raise my spirits, there's something so powerful in being surrounded by books.

me too me too me too ohmygosh I went to Barnes & Noble yesterday and it made me want to throw myself into multiple fictional worlds and read without realizing time is passing by until I've finished

I'm so tempted to just lock myself in my bedroom and read for hours-