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We only stayed about 30 minutes. Mum said it wasn't for her, and Dad was unsettled by it.
It wasn't the way it was described to them at Mass.

Alarm bells rang for me yesterday when it said refreshment breaks would be in the monring and afternoon but to bring your own packed lunch. That didn't mesh with the "just drop in any time" event Mum was describing.

Then when we got there, we had to sign in, and one column was agreeing to be contacted by the Healing Ministries in the future. I put a line through this box. One of the steely-gaze OAPs at the table told me I had to initial the box. "I don't really want to be contacted."
"You have to sign it, otherwise we can't let you in."
Bearing in mind I was there to build bridges for Mum I signed. Hmmmm. Had I been there alone I would have asked to see someone with a brain, it was obviously an option, not a requirement. Joke's on them though, I misspelled my email address and didn't give my postcode.

Anyway it was a proper service, singing and Gospel reading and praying over people.
Mum said it was too evangelical. It wasn't - I mean I know evangelical, the church I went to in Leicester was practically a mission centre; they had someone in the city centre preaching every weekend. I think she meant it was too informal and happy-clappy for her.

Anyway, I was saved.
Saved from having to sit there for too long.
Not sneering - if that's your bag good luck to you.
Me, I'm actually looking forward to tomorrow. Back to the Friends' Meeting House for silent contemplation with the Quakers.