As for extended kneeling -- if you wear a below-knee-length skirt, nobody need know that you have your gardening kneepads on! (nobody noticed mine!!!!) I went to Mass at the Cathedral -- they not only have very minimally padded kneelers (unlike the nice cushy ones at our parish), there are NO KNEELERS at the rail, just hard marble!!!!! Thought I was gonna die waiting for the priest and his cadre of acolytes ... there's some real penance!
LOL, my office mate offered to lend me his garden pads. He was just joking. And I’m good with the sandles since I had pedicured toes with blue nail polish. :-)
Oh Golly you have me laughing out loud yet again! Too funny. Father just put in new kneelers at our parish and they feel just a bit too cushy for me. I liked the old split naugahyde that could pinch ya good! Such a feeling of penitential satisfaction!!! ; )