Feast of the Immaculate Conception
December 8
1961 to 1972
Catholic schools
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I am the sorrowful product of 12 years of Catholic school. Most
of those moments were grim. But one of the few happy moments what’s every
December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. In my younger
years, the nuns never liked to explain what this observation day was. They never
liked to talk about conception so I never knew why I was having the day off but
that didn’t matter. All that mattered was that I never have to go to school on
December 8.
In high school the nuns wanted us to know why the immaculate
conception was so important. It had
nothing to do with sex but rather it focused on the Blessed Virgin mother. According
to scripture, Mary. the Mother of Jesus was the only person ever born without
original sin. Hers was the immaculate conception. Even upon hearing this I
still didn’t care about the Immaculate Conception. I only cared about having
the day off each and every day of my life during those very long 12 years.
I loved it when
December 8 fell on a Wednesday. That meant I had the weekend prior off, I went
to school for two days, had no school that Wednesday, went to school for two
days and then at the weekend again. That was a wonderful, bearable week of
school. I hated it when December 8 fell on a Sunday because then we had no day
off. That day was insignificant to me, almost
joyless and without any thought of original sin. As a matter of fact, I viewed
these lot days as sinful.
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