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    21 Things Everyone Who Grew Up In A Catholic Family Will Understand

    Not today Satan!

    1. When you were forced to take 500 photos with relatives you've never met during your first communion.

    2. And then have those photos displayed throughout the house for eternity.

    3. When your parents convinced you that cussing is a hell-worthy sin...

    ...and then became the worst offenders themselves.

    4. When you began to wonder if your parents' shrine would ever stop growing.

    5. When you dressed in all black one time and your mom thought you went to the dark side.

    6. When you talked during mass and your mom gave you a look far more evil than Satan himself.

    7. When your dad gave you a dollar during collection so you didn't embarrass yourself by looking cheap.

    8. When you got scolded every time you couldn't control your meat craving during Lent.

    9. When your grandma told you never to mess with Satan or else you'd end up in The Exorcist.

    10. And when she had to bless just about every room she entered with holy water, including the bathroom.

    11. When your one super strict aunt believed Halloween was the Devil's favorite holiday.

    12. When your parents hoarded stacks of church bulletins because it seemed too unholy to throw 'em away.

    13. When your mom used the same nativity set year after year, even if Baby Jesus was missing an arm and Joseph a leg.

    14. When you were basically halfway done with your dinner by the time your family started praying.

    15. When you spent the majority of mass competing with your siblings to see who could make a better palm cross.

    16. And when you compared each other's Ash Wednesday marks to see whose looked like an actual cross.

    17. When your mom lit a candle for just about any occasion, be it a major surgery or a minor spelling test.

    18. When some of your family members only went to Christmas Mass just to prove that they haven't turned their backs on the church.

    19. When your parents literally dragged you to confess your sins against your will.

    20. When your grandmother's most powerful weapon was her ability to pray the rosary.

    21. And finally, when your parents became your Sunday morning alarm clock and you wondered if Jesus ever had to get up this early.