As a kid I simply loved Easter Saturday

When I was a kid, I only looked forward to Christmas. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a new Christmas. And this is called Easter. I was aware of the bloody penitents who flagellate themselves around the barrio and into the beach... I was fascinated by the practices and I would rather watch a drama about the passion in the town plaza than pray the rosary at home.... Only lately that my country started adapting Western practices. Believe it or not ut we have two Easter eggs in my refrigerator. And my niece has a rabbit for a stuffed toy. When I was little, I don;t think I really prayed. The formula prayers were always said but that was as far as I go where praying is concerned. I learned more about prayers as I grew up...

You grew up in a much more devout religion than even the Catholic people that I know in the United States. No, children do not like any kind of discipline, and especially not praying.

my brothers and sisters were raised non religiously. we knew about jesus etc via school religious education but we gave it no further thought. as a kid i found religion boring but understood the meaning of christmas and easter etc, unlike many of todays kids. my mother and father were teachers and my mother was born and bred at Ibrox in Glasgow. this is a strongly sectarian area of Scotland and when she moved to the island we were born in she avoided religion in our lives as she had seen the negative side of it. This is a sad issue which still privales to this day within the west coast of scotland, to my eterenal shame.