Annie: Oh my! Our faith is important! Very important. I went to a convent when I was out of the eighth grade. Yeah, kind of interesting, but I didn’t stay very long because I got appendicitis and came home, luckily. But anyway, you can’t believe how important our faith is to us. We get up at five o’clock every morning and we go to seven o’clock mass every day. I don’t know what I would do without my faith.

Lou: I’ve been doing that for over 50 years. I’ve gone to mass every morning. When I worked in Baltimore, Tucson; first thing was mass every morning.

Annie: Our faith is very important to us. I just wish I could tell people how important it is, what an important thing it is.

Lou: What a way to start the day.

Annie: It really does. It’s a matter of getting up. Then we meet for coffee with the priest after mass and we have the time of day and then we come home and start the day. It’s nice. It really is very important.

It’s kind of interesting, I think I told you the other day that I’m the only one in my family of 11 who married a born Catholic, and so consequently I was very lucky because the others had to face everybody coming into the faith and that isn’t always easy and they didn’t all join the church. I think probably nine of the eleven did.

Lou: Only two of them did not.