When I was about 7 I didn't really pay that much attention at Mass. One night I heard my 8 year old brother reciting the Our Father to my dad at bed time. I thought he made it up and thought it was cool. The next Sunday we said my brother's prayer at church! I was really impressed!
A childhood belief about prayers

others believed things like this
- My 18 year old brother thought the former vice president was named Al Gorbachov.— Jeff
- My brother thought the trees made the wind...logical.— peter
- I am Catholic. I used to believe that the Father presenting the Mass was in fact God himself.— Lindsey
- When I was learning the Lord's Prayer, I used to say, "Our Father, who does art in heaven...."— Karen
- I long believed that Ronald Reagan was Ronald McDonald's brother. And I thought it made him more impressive!— JB
- I used to believe that in the Christian Prayer of the Faithful, we were responding, "Lord, harrow prayer."— Smelleanor