You Know you're Catholic when

[geetarplayer]

Someone asks you what day it is and you say, "Joyful" or "Glorious" or "Sorrowful" or "Luminous".

At Halloween, you have to explain to everyone, "No, I'm not a Jedi. I'm Saint Francis!"

[nawtyeravgjoe]

when you wake up with a scapular in your armpit

the word Fiat is more than just a European car manufacturer

when you lose your keys, the first person you ask to help you look for them is St. Anthony

your ringtone is Panis Angelicus

when your friend starts offending you, your first instinct is to throw holy water at them.

youv'e held a small grudge against Tom Hanks ever since the Da Vinci Code movie came out.

[jiyoung]

[quote name='Vianney Sausages' post='1030992' date='Jul 26 2006, 12:20 AM']
when you wake up with a scapular in your armpit

when your friend starts offending you, your first instinct is to throw holy water at them.

youv'e held a small grudge against Tom Hanks ever since the Da Vinci Code movie came out.
[/quote]

YES! hahahaha

When people say "Nashville," you think Dominicans, not country music.

You get confused when people pronounce caramel like Carmelite. And when people start snickering when you say Carmelite, it takes you a second to figure out why.

You cross yourself every time you pass by a Catholic church, or any other place where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved--and people get used to it, too.

You make a point of figuring out where the Catholic churches are in the area (and where they aren't--some of those Protestant churches and stuff can confuse you) so you can do the above.

[Anomaly]

You know you're 'Catholic' when you believe people are born Catholic.

[Franimus]

Your 2 or 3 year old nephew does the following:
-Says the consecration prayers of the priests (Take this, etc) while holding your mother's small plastic white coasters, even though never being actually taught the prayers.
-Says grace before meals repeatedly until the food is cool enough to eat (or not at all if it's already cold enough) (My older sister used to say them until everyone else was done and dishes put away.. now it's just until everybody's halfway done).


-You sing along to music in the car, but your voice trails off at every curse word and picks up with the word after it

-You go to type Chris, but type Christ instead

-You go to a Theology school, but major in Computer Science and minor in Math and Communication

-You eat over at a friend's house, and wonder why they don't have a picture of the Last Supper in their dining room.

-Someone threatens to kill you, and you say "Go ahead, I just went to confession on the way here!"

-You should've gone to bed 10 hours ago in order to get enough sleep before you have to go to work that night, but you're still up posting on Phatmass and Facebook about what you believe and why.

-I'm not sure, but I think I've been tempted to genuflect at movie theaters.. If I have, it was years ago.

-There's a poster sitting in your room from a protest at a John Kerry campaign speech saying "You can't be Catholic and pro-abortion" on one side and "Crusade for the defense of the Catholic Church" on the other, and have the latter displaying.

-A La Salette cross from numerous Steubie East conferences is always around your neck, and people ask if you have a string or rubber band around your neck until you show it to them.

-Somebody seriously asks you "HOW DO YOU LIVE??!?!?" when you tell them you don't masturbate or have sex.

-At all classes, plays, speakers, and other events you sit in the back.

-At the beginning of Lent, you're already pretty sure of what you're giving up next Lent.

-You don't bother make a New Year's resolution, and consider the Lenten resolution to be your substitute

-A friend asks you to take them somewhere, but you're tired from work, are already in bed, or are hanging out with friends elsewhere, and tell them to come over so you can give them your car keys instead.

-A non-Catholic friend confides in you her desire to one day go to confession and confess a lot of very explicit "sexcapades" to see the priest's reaction

-You have just the priest in mind whom you've been wanting to find a good prank against.... [Editor's Note: This idea was later deemed too inappropriate, due to it probably being some sort of sacriligeous abuse of a Sacrament, and will never be carried out in that manner]

-Every time you break up with a girlfriend, you discern the priesthood [This hasn't happened to me, but happens to many people I know at school...]

-You wonder why other churches don't have kneelers

-All the other denominations are just the same to you and you can't differentiate between Lutherans, Protestants, Methodists, and Baptists (except that Baptists dance and clap)

-One of your favorite facebook groups is " Catholics Who Want To Get Married and Pro-create With Wreckless abandonment "

-You make sure that you don't go to Adoration or pray just out of convenience so you wait until you're really just about to go to bed to go to Adoration and/or pray, so that you lose sleep time [not recommended.. too much falling asleep while praying]

-You start to enjoy the music at Mass (but not necessarily Mass-style music played outside of Mass)

-Someone asks you to argue something without involving God, and you can't, so you convert them [okay, so the last part is only a wish]

-You decide to refrain from adding anything else to this list so that you can get 2.5 hours of sleep before daily noon Mass
Yeah, I did all these unless otherwise noted...

[Tindomiel]

[quote name='jiyoung' post='1030995' date='Jul 26 2006, 03:47 AM']
YES! hahahaha

When people say "Nashville," you think Dominicans, not country music.

You get confused when people pronounce caramel like Carmelite. And when people start snickering when you say Carmelite, it takes you a second to figure out why.

You cross yourself every time you pass by a Catholic church, or any other place where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved--and people get used to it, too.

You make a point of figuring out where the Catholic churches are in the area (and where they aren't--some of those Protestant churches and stuff can confuse you) so you can do the above.
[/quote]
I actually do do all these... except [i]everyone [/i] up here pronounces caramel "car-mel"

Edited July 26, 2006 by Tindomiel

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Franimus' post='1031035' date='Jul 26 2006, 06:55 AM']
-One of your favorite facebook groups is " Catholics Who Want To Get Married and Pro-create With Wreckless abandonment "

[/quote]

[SeekingHisPlan]

You get home from work and your roommate tells you, completely without surprise, "Some nun called for you."

Then you spend five minutes trying to figure out which nun it was because most of the ones you talk to either have Mary, Catherine or both in their names!