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<\/a>In eighth grade I asked the pastor if I could help with the schedules for the altar servers and he agreed. \u00c2\u00a0It was the only way to be involved. \u00c2\u00a0And I liked to be in charge of things. \u00c2\u00a0A few years later girls were permitted to be servers and I trained the first group including my sisters. \u00c2\u00a0I continued with scheduling and training until I had the boys. \u00c2\u00a0I am still very friendly with some of those kids and families!<\/p>\nSo now Aidan is in third grade. \u00c2\u00a0This past weekend he served his first Mass. \u00c2\u00a0He did great! \u00c2\u00a0I was so proud. \u00c2\u00a0A couple of times as I watched him it was like watching Chris all those years ago.<\/p>\n
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So many memories for me growing up are tied to Gatey. \u00c2\u00a0Having the church so close to my house was probably a big part of it. \u00c2\u00a0The fact that Chris and I went to the parish school probably also contributes. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>In eighth grade I asked the pastor if I could help with the schedules for the altar servers and he agreed. \u00c2\u00a0It was the only way to be involved. \u00c2\u00a0And I liked to be in charge of things. \u00c2\u00a0A few years later girls were permitted to be servers and I trained the first group including my sisters. \u00c2\u00a0I continued with scheduling and training until I had the boys. \u00c2\u00a0I am still very friendly with some of those kids and families!<\/p>\n