The Importance of Faith in Life

I grew up with the symbols and rituals, which I'm still taken by. But religion for me was more a sense of community. When someone died within the Catholic community, all the women of the CDBL got that they baked,. you know, sandwiches with the crust cut off and they did little squares and they had big urns of tea. Or if it was with the Protestant, the Protestant community did the same thing. So it was part of community, I never thought of religion as something oppressive, something which takes away, but rather something which gives.