Petr Zámečník

"We were walking with a friend of mine, his name was Pavel, past our place up the hill, and there was a group of girls. We were eighteen or nineteen at the time; he was a year older. We saw the girls and knew who they were; they were local and from the area, so we walked over to them. The girls were shouting something at us and we were like, where did you come from? A gentleman we didn't know stepped out and walked over to us. He said, boys, where are you coming? We said, well we saw the girls here, we were wondering... And he says, what's your name? Petr and Pavel. He said, I can hear it like it was today even though it's been maybe 40 years: My goodness, these are the holy apostles! That's how we got to him. He was a boy scout guide and he was leading the girls. He started questioning us on the spot, asking if we'd been to the holy communion. He introduced himself and said he was the local parish priest. When he said that, we caught on to that and he caught on to us saying that we were holy apostles and hadn't been to the holy communion, and he said we would have to go through that if we wanted to. My parents weren't against it at the time, it was about '68 or '69 because I was to join the army shortly afterwards that and my friend went a little earlier. So he convinced us that we had to go for the communion but had to take some training at the rectory first."