A Wedding Story
his essay was written by Alexandra, 31, who is originally from Los Angeles.
Her husband Christopher, 31, is an architect from Medford, New Jersey. Alexandra tells the unlikely story of her discovery of the Faith and its traditions, and how she fell in love and married her Christopher in an astonishingly beautiful historic Catholic church, in a Latin Mass.
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My faith-free upbringing
Raised by a lapsed Catholic mother and a Jewish father, faith was never mentioned in my home while I was growing up. I always had a burning curiosity for who God was, even asking my mom to take me to my first Catholic Mass when I was fourteen. I couldn't describe it, but something about the Catholic Church always intrigued me and rang true.
She wasn't interested, so I didn't return to actively looking into the Faith until I was at college, which was formerly Catholic. In the library under stacks of dusty free books, I found what I now know is a Missal. It was from the 1930’s, with the name 'Zita' written in flowery script on the inside cover. It was full of underlines, notes, prayer cards, and wedding and funeral mementos. It was like finding the diary of a soul, and I kept that missal for years.
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