Holy Childhood - the manual

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Holy Childhood - the manual

Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:45 pm

Amongst a pile of old schoolbooks that my parents brought round this week, was a little book called "Holy Childhood", presumably my dad's as a child. It harkens from the 1950s and the era of the Latin Mass (R.C.) when the priest faced away from the congregation, and the service was conducted in an ancient language that the common folks couldn't understand. This book gave kids something to do while all this was going on: it described each point in the service with sections describing what you'd be seeing, what it meant, and what to be praying while it was going on.

Here's the introduction, and a selection of illustrations from parts of the mass. When one considers the level of detail these things went to, it's not surprising that the generation before me was so indoctrinated that even now they can't pull away from it.

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:47 pm

Mmmm.... Bosco...

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Post by Pappa » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:03 pm

In that last scan, is he feeling the priest's bum?
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:04 pm

Pappa wrote:In that last scan, is he feeling the priest's bum?
Yes. It's so significant that they print that image twice, on consecutive double pages.
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Post by Pappa » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:08 pm

OMFG! In that bottom one, is the priest sucking off Jesus?
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:09 pm

Pappa wrote:OMFG! In that bottom one, is the priest sucking off Jesus?
Don't ask what he's going to do with the cup thing.
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Pappa wrote:OMFG! In that bottom one, is the priest sucking off Jesus?
Don't ask what he's going to do with the cup thing.
Catching the holy offering... :naughty:
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:13 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:
Pappa wrote:OMFG! In that bottom one, is the priest sucking off Jesus?
Don't ask what he's going to do with the cup thing.
Catching the holy offering... :naughty:
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Post by AshtonBlack » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:16 pm

Those pics are due a DAMN good caption competition!!!!! Get shoopin'!!!

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Re: Holy Childhood - the manual

Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:20 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Thinking Aloud wrote:
Pappa wrote:OMFG! In that bottom one, is the priest sucking off Jesus?
Don't ask what he's going to do with the cup thing.
Catching the holy offering... :naughty:
Would that be the first, or the second coming?
It matters not; yea, my cup runneth over... *slurp* OK, fixed. Erm, verily.
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