My God, My God - answer me, please?

the questions by cradle Catholics are plentiful... if they are asked...

my hubbit (cradle Catholic) doesnt know a lot of his own Catholic background... he assumes it was always this way, it will always be this way, and any q's about it means nothing to him...

he was born Catholic, he was raised Catholic, he went to Catholic school, he was an altar server longer than customary (thru high school)...

i asked his mom (another cradle Catholic, Italian-born) about the Church, she had some q's for me...

i asked my mom (another cradle Catholic, Irish-born) about the Church - I found more about the Rosary, about Penance, about some history, but still had to go the priest...

i asked them both - and got different responses from each of them... an organist, a singer, a secretary, a Rosary maker, a Catholic Daughter, etc, etc...

one does not know to refrain from addressing someone praying (with a Rosary dangling in front), one was so respectful they would only interrupt if a natural disaster was coming to the pray-er...

one takes Holy Communion every Mass she's at, one only took Communion once, and only after fasting from midnight on...

one goes to Penance once a month... one always has something to do with the Church that interferes...

one cremated her Baptist hubby and keeps him on her desk, to go back to California to be buried there, with her body... one was buried in Catholic hallowed ground, and her second Baptist hubby was buried there with her...

2 Catholics... both with holes in their Catholic backgrounds, both of many, many generations of Catholic-women bringing up their children, both having prayed for their fallen-away children, both having huge open hearts to those that need it...

both doing their best to keep the Catholic faith growing... both women I honor by being the best Catholic I can be... yet another cradle-Catholic, but one who left the Church only to come crawling back...

questions? even cradle Catholics have them... even we need to ask q's...