DGS49
Diamond Member
We Old people tend to go to church on Sunday. Our kids and grandkids don't but we do...maybe it's because we sense that our "day of reckoning" is near.
Old people flock to Florida in Winter.
It is remarkable to attend Church in (especially) February in The Villages. They are bursting at the seams, and virtually everyone in the pews has gray hair, or is conspicuously coloring their hair to hide it. We sing the hymns loudly, with enthusiasm that is seldom seen elsewhere these days.
The priests and ministers plead with us to support their churches generously, even if we are only there for a couple of weeks or months in Winter. Many of their regular parishioners are Hispanic and relatively poor, so they have lots of community outreach stuff going on, and much of the funding comes from us oldsters who are only here temporarily.
Still, there is something to be said for going to a full church with an enthusiastic congregation, in this post-covid period of religious lethargy.
Old people flock to Florida in Winter.
It is remarkable to attend Church in (especially) February in The Villages. They are bursting at the seams, and virtually everyone in the pews has gray hair, or is conspicuously coloring their hair to hide it. We sing the hymns loudly, with enthusiasm that is seldom seen elsewhere these days.
The priests and ministers plead with us to support their churches generously, even if we are only there for a couple of weeks or months in Winter. Many of their regular parishioners are Hispanic and relatively poor, so they have lots of community outreach stuff going on, and much of the funding comes from us oldsters who are only here temporarily.
Still, there is something to be said for going to a full church with an enthusiastic congregation, in this post-covid period of religious lethargy.
