Catholics Spying on Protestatnts

When my family lived on Manget Street across from Larry Bell Park, down the street almost at the corner of Glover Street was a small  church called Mary Memorial  Church.  I  drove by there recently and it is still there, I was surprised how small the parking lot and church are.  I was friends with two brothers George and Mike Hobby, both have died.  They were Catholic.   During this time of our lives they lived with their parents on Glover Street.  They sometimes had a horse and had a barn for the horse behind their house.  The barn was right behind the Mary Memorial Church. 

One Sunday night we three were climbing on their barn and climbed up on the roof.  We discovered we could sit on the barn roof and look into the window of the church having its Sunday night service.  They did a lot of shouting, crying, screaming, and raw religious music.

My uncle Tom Petty and his wife Mary Jo Johns were members there and also belonged  to a gospel singing group.  It would have been very interesting to watch them sing.  Tom did not look like the singing type.  They never performed the nights we were there.

The two Catholic siblings enjoyed perching on top of the barn and watching the Pentecostal  or Primitive Baptist Church.... it was far removed from what they were  used to: confessional booths, Priests with robes, Crosses, Marys, and all that.

I don't think any of the congregation ever saw  us gawking at them.  But again, maybe they did and preferred not to cause a ruckus.