The devil and the holy water....

I am getting married on sept 6th this year. Although we already had the civil ceremony for burocratic reasons, so Jen can safely stay in Italy, we will do by that day also the "official" religious wedding, so, finally, there will be somebody from her family present. I am catholic and Jen is protestant, although none of us is really into religion.  In any event, for the catholic wed, one has to attend some classes where you are supposed to learn what actually means getting married as a Catholic. So this has been going on w every Friday for the last month and a half and we finished today. Honestly I have not been in a mass in quite a long time, years, I would say.  Let me put it in this way. I am a physicist and Jen is a protestant. We were not exactly seen as the perfect "catholic"  couple. On the other hand, there were other three couples. One was basically raised at the oratory, a second one whose groom seemed the xerox copy of the little kid seated at the first bench everybody has at the elementary school. The other couple was around only for a couple of weeks. In any case, we were the couple to redeem. Every week a different topic was discussed, from our role in the Church and of the Church in our lives, to bioethical issues.  I must say some meeting were interesting, some others were intolerably boring, mostly because at the end of the week at 9 pm I am not exactly ready for more classes.  On the other hand, entering a Church has always had a soothing effect on me and these hours forced me to think again about what is the meaning of my God. I deeply feel something religious in me, although being a physicist, I am extremely critical. I don't know if because of this course I will attend mass again, definitely it strucked a cord with me. At least I met a nice couple, I can go and have a drink with,  in a tough city.