Is Wednesday a religious study night for all Christian faiths?

Wednesday is the day comic books are released — so yes, Wednesday night is a “religious study night” for myself and the many who worship at the altar of Stan and Jack (and Will and Steve).

I recall having CCD on Sundays when I was a kid.

I can only speak for Unitarians and – no.

No, but in my area (North Carolina) it is bible study night at most churches in the community.

Bible study would be included. I didn’t know what to call it, so I lumped it all in as “classes.”

I just wondered because at my gym in TN they didn’t hold many group exercise classes like Zumba, because they said they assumed attendance would be low because of church. The same reasoning in Sundays. Group exercise didn’t start before 2:00, which meant Zumba was smack in the middle of the day.

I just looked up the Jr. High where I lived in TN for something on Facebook, something totally unrelated, and I noticed they don’t give homework in Wednesday. They say to work on projects, but it’s obviously for church knowing where I lived.

Thump Day?

I attended Disciples of Christ for 16+ years, and our only regularly scheduled programming was on Sunday morning and holidays.
We considered anyone that met more than once a week, ‘holy rollers’.
The Catlickkers were under the radar, having their own church and school. They might have been mentioned in a negative light occasionally, but weren’t preached against.

@thorninmud Do they hump before or after thumping? That would be thumpthing!

I would say there were quite a few holy rollers where I lived.

Wisdom Wednesday is quite common.

@JLeslie That was funny!

What is Wisdom Wednesday? Is that a specific sect that uses that term?

In my parish, CCD is on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, because there are a lot more kids than can fit into a single day.

For my kids it was pretty much the same all through elementary school:

Scouts (Cubs, Brownies, Girl or Boy) on Tuesday,
CCD, Hebrew, or other religious program Wednesday.
Soccer Practice on Thursday.

It was for me…Pentecostal.

My kids had Hebrew school two days a week and Sunday; some years it was Tuesday and Thursday and some years Monday and Wednesday.

When I was a kid and had to attend catechism classes, it was in the afternoon of whatever day the volunteer teacher/neighborhood mother found most convenient for her. And, like summer school hours, there were those darn 2 weeks of classes in the summer, usually in June.

I’m surprised to hear this. Mine were always on Sundays. I only took the CCD classes that were required for the sacraments (1st Communion and Confirmation) because I went to a Catholic school. They were between masses so you could either go to Mass and then CCD, or CCD then Mass.

I’m surprised how many Catholics are saying different days than Wednesday. My niece and nephew had to go to CCD Wednesday afternoons, and growing up I know the Jewish kids who attended the Catholic school up the street got out earlier than the other kids on Wednesdays, because of religious classes. However, this is my only personal knowledge of religious classes regarding the Catholics, I just made an assumption based on that experience and my gym not scheduling classes, and the schools not scheduling homework.

I know one set of friends of mine attend Sunday school after services, obviously on Sunday. They go to a bible study like thing after services and their kids do also all in the same church complex. They aren’t Carholic, they are some Evangelical, holy roller types.

@JLeslie In high school, I had religion class practically every day. It took up one block in every semester.
From what I know about grades before that, you have religion once a week in grades 1–5, and 3 times a week in middle school. They’re built into the class schedule and the days/times are arbitrary. Everyone is required to participate in them, as they are in high school as well.
As you probably know, I’m still talking about Catholic schooling.

It was an elementary school the school I mentioned. Maybe it went to 8th grade, but I don’t think so.

My daughter goes on Thursdays.

I should mention that even though there were more Catholics than I expected in the area I lived in in TN, the Protestant churches were bigger and there were many more of them. I happen to have quite a few Catholic friends there (why should TN be any different than my entire life?) but you encountered more Christians who were Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptists, and other Evangelical type groups.

Side note: my kids used to say that CCD, which they were made go to, stood for Cruel Catholic Death. They detested it and as soon as they were old enough stopped going. ‘Course that came about at the same time my wife, a cradle Catholic, decided that it was stupid to continue going to a Catholic church when she disagreed with s much of their doctrine.

^^My nephew once told me he wanted to be Jewish, because they didn’t have to do anything. I don’t think many children like having to go to extra “school.” I laughed a little and told him being Jewish has all sorts of rules and classes, it’s just that his friends aren’t religious and so they don’t do most of it.

Disclaimer: I want to add I know I used holy roller up above, but I know people who go to church more than once a week who are not holy rollers. My own MIL used to go more than once a week at times and she is a lovely woman who is religious and I think she finds comfort in her religion. She watches the Catholic mass or rosary (I don’t know which) on TV almost daily, even in English when Spanish is not available. I have never seen that woman for one second try to push her religion on someone else nor judge others or prejudge others based in religious differences.

Wednesday was common growing up. I assumed, as a small child, that it simply split the week in half. Made sense.