Just How Do You Entertain A Priest If You Can't Speak French and Are Not Catholic?
This memoir is another in our French Life Series where we share what living in France is really like for our Australian family. We went on holiday to France with our daughter, and bought a house in Brittany while we were there, and have been living between our homes in Australia and France ever since. This story is from our early years in France ...
After settling, to some degree, into our new life in France we decided to attend a Sunday service at the local église catholique (Catholic church). We had previously had a failed attempt at this rather simple activity as it was not obvious that, rather than having a service every Sunday, the commune took turns in conducting the Sunday service on a set roster with priests doing the rounds of the local villages. This of course meant that on our first attempt to attend a service, we had turned up on a Sunday our village was 'un-rostered'.
