We go to mass every sunday at 7:30. I hated this when I was a kid, but I also knew that early mass meant we got to eat soonest. We were old school catholics, nobody ate until we had been to mass. When I started serving mass, I would work hard to get early masses just so I could get out and get home and eat. On some very special sundays, when dad had an extra tenner in his pocket, we’d go to Golds corner restaurant and eat. That was a treat, there. We could all have different things. My sister would order belgian waffles. I’d order a ham and cheese omelette. Mom got cereal. Cereal? You can have that at home, mom!! Dad got an over-easy egg on top of a stack of pancakes with a big coffee. Our favorite waitress, a willowy Whyan girl, would wait on us, my teenage hormones working overtime. <\/p>\n
So these days, my anchor is the sunday morning mass and breakfast. Very little gets in it’s way. The three of us, sitting in a restaurant eating breakfast after mass, talking about the sermon, reading the comics, giggling at each other’s jokes. The daughter doesn’t seem to mind the early hour, as she likes to see the people we know that always go to early mass, and to early breakfast. We don’t wait to be seated, we just walk in and take our booth. The waitresses know what we want, and bring it. We haven’t looked at a menu in years. I pray every sunday evening that the next sunday morning is exactly the same with no changes. I hope your anchors are as deeply rooted and as pleasurable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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