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1. When you have to attend mass 7 mornings a week without fail.
2. When they expect you to stay awake through morning mass and also stay awake in class for the entire day.
3. And there are still evening prayers 7 days a week.
4. When the priest is preaching and he mentions how other churches are doing something wrong.
5. When your CRK class is basically Cathecism class.
6. When you misplace something and the Sisters tell you to pray to St. Anthony to help you find it.
7. When you mistakenly wear your skirt above your knee or sag your trousers.
8. When your sex education was basically “If you talk to boys, you’ll get pregnant”.
9. And once it’s 12 noon or 6pm, you have to stop everything you’re doing. Because Angelus.
10. When you’re not even Catholic but you have to learn all the prayers and now there’s no space for anything else in your brain.
11. When the altar boys and girls were one of the coolest people in school.
12. When they leave space for the Holy Spirit between you and the next person during an exam.
13. When you’re in an only girl’s school and your brother school comes round but you’re not allowed to speak to them.
14. If you’re not Catholic, the 40 days of Lent were your own personal hell.
15. When you commit an offence and they tell you that you just nailed Jesus to the cross.
16. And now, even if you’re not in a Catholic church, your knee automatically bends when you enter a row.
