A helpful image

Sometimes you need a visual image to get the point across.

I enjoyed this image from The Sacred Page:

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    15 Responses to A helpful image

    1. revs96 says:

      Awesome. Absolutely hilarious.

    2. Dr. Eric says:

      I think the image is inaccurate, the Catholic Church belongs in the ball with “Jesus, Apostles and Early Church Fathers” not as a string outside of the Early Church.

      Although, the Reformation mess is appropriate.

    3. Tim Ferguson says:

      And I believe that mess was used to make this:
      http://themcj.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/schori31.jpg

    4. wanda says:

      Tim, LOL. Thanks, I needed that, really.

    5. irishgirl says:

      Tim-Oh ‘mein Gawd’. That is so funny….and soooo uugglly!

      But I love the ‘yarn allegory’, Father Z-I bet a cat was just waiting to pounce on that pile and play with that ball! Cute…

    6. smcollinsus says:

      Ha! It gives a whole new definition to “spinning a yarn”!

    7. AnAmericanMother says:

      Gad, that woman must be colorblind.

      I’ve found Yarnia!

    8. Athelstan says:

      Hello Tim,

      No, that “miter” looks like some kind of acrylic. *This* is more likely what the yarn was used to create: http://www.standfirminfaith.com/images/technicolor_yawn.jpg

      All of which admittedly is probably not fair to conservative Protestants who still actually take their creeds, such as they are, seriously.

    9. Joan M says:

      The mess looks like my yarn when I have been crocheting from the neat ball and then discover I made a serious mistake in the pattern. I quickly undo all the stitches I made after the mistake, resulting in a worse mess than that in the picture.

      However, I undo the mistake and re-crochet the rest, ending with a lovely garment!

      We have too many ripped out messes that are just left messy.

    10. lucy says:

      I loved this, being a knitter and all. Now I will smile everytime I look at my yarn. You’ve now covered all my favorite topics – cooking, good Catholic commentary, and knitting. Great job, Fr.!

    11. GirlCanChant says:

      I needed that. And we got some bonus laughs off of hideous vestments!

    12. Supertradmum says:

      Did a cat do that? If so, can we name him Luther or Calvin?

    13. Melody says:

      You’d think that women, more typically knowing how to sew, could come up with something a bit nicer than those pictures.

      Love the visual representation though.

    14. Jane says:

      Unscrambling the Reformation looks like it is going to take a while. We are not the Roman Catholic Church. We are the Catholic Church.

    15. Jack Hughes says:

      supertradmom

      Another possible name for the cat is Ulrich Zwingli, Henry and Thomas Crammer