... focus on the Virgin Mary at the local Catholic church, since most of the New Testament was about Jesus. I was thinking, "There's not much in the Bible about Mary and what she professed, so why is she the focus?"
My parents' church didn't have a minister regularly yelling "Jeee-sus!" in a Southern twang, or anything like that. 
His sermons would've probably been considered dull to some Protestants, who seem to need regular stimulation beyond singing a few hymns in between. The first time that I went to a different Protestant church (also with a childhood friend and his family), I was shocked to hear congregants regularly screaming "Hallelujah!" and whatnot. I was thinking, "How rude! Just keep your mouths shut and listen to the sermon." But that kind of behavior was actually encouraged there, of course.
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