Usually was a dollar or two.īecause it's a joke in celebration of St Paddy's Day and Irish. Weddings uplifted my spirits when paid up to $5 as a server. OP is a compliment that is humorous to Irish, Catholics and anyone who attended or heard about an Irish wake. I was told to keep it confidential the same as deacons and sub-deacons did in those days. They were nearly the opposite of funerals for laity with jubilation for the deceased nun's soul entering heaven to be with Jesus for eternity. Nun's funerals were held during class days at a nunnery to which I was driven. Priest didn't want to train someone every year so it was a 3 year gig. When a group of kids were caught misbehaving, the tallest was singled out to blame.īy grade 6 I was center on the 8th grade basketball team and picked out to be trained to serve Solemn High feast day Masses, and, clergy and nuns' funerals. I was the tallest in my grammar school class with with 250 students in two classrooms in the late '40s reduced to 68 in the mid '50s.
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