Hi Jack, Thanks for the humorous nostalgia. I wonder how many prayers were given out as "penance" from that free-standing, hand-carved, two-sided confessional while it was part of St. Agnes ?? Can anybody count that high?? Bob Grace On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:38:06 -0500 "Jack R. Braverman" <jbraverman1@compuserve.com> writes: The ff. is purely nostalgia, but then, what's wrong with that? Anyway it was written as part of a grade school reunion book, yet it may "speak" to y'alls, too. * * * * * Dividing line. This isn't precisely a St. Ann's memory, yet somehow it meshes with the general theme of these thoughts. In 1985, or so, I was dining in the Greenhouse restaurant at the corner of Murray Hill and Adelbert Roads on the edge of the CWRU campus. The room was separated into two levels by a low railing. I noted a woman nearby who obviously had taken more than a lady's share of liquid happiness due to a wedding anniversary celebration. She had a few tears running down her cheeks. Gesturing, she sobbed to her table companions, "This is the communion rail where I made my First Communion 40 years ago. God! How I've changed." The decor of the establishment was Church Salvage. The rail, along with the stained-glass windows, and a complete, free-standing, hand-carved, two-sided confessional (into which slipped for old time's sake) had been purchased when yet another of Cleveland's marvelous Roman Catholic churches was put under the wrecker's ball for lack of parishioners. (The items had come from St. Agnes at 79th Street and Euclid Avenue, where now only the impressive campanile and priests' house remain, although once there was the finest example of Southern European Renaissance recessed portals in the Midwest.) Goodness. How much everything has changed!