December 19th, 2023
Dear Diary,
Blessing of gals and guys. THANKS ALOT. Now WHAT?!?
Heck, I bless everything! Houses, cars, new offices in the chancery, campfires at camp, booze, ribs, sandwiches, you name it. It’s like that TV show, “That’s what I do. I’m a bishop and I bless stuff.” Bottom line: It makes people happy. That’s what I think this is about, happy. Blessing two gals, or two guys. It’ll make them happy. It’ll make everyone happy! Won’t it? I bless animals on St. Francis every year. Fr. Tommy keeps saying it’s MY feast day, Francis – hate that name. Thanks mom. This is for dogs. Even Chester tho he needs an exercising not a blessing. What would THAT be like? Blessing implies approval. I think. I read that somewhere. Is there is dog whisper-exerciser? I wonder where can I find a guy to do that? Fr. Gilbert?
I can bless Danny’s heela monster and Tina’s pet gopher and a couple of poodles. Why can’t I bless two gals or guys? Great-uncle Pete said “as long as they don’t frighten the horses!” Heck I if I can bless a couple of shitsoos I can bless Stan and Bruce. Right?
The thing is the yearly blessing of the animals is a favorite of mine. Okay I get bitten and peed on. I mean, if two guys come up to me and ask for a blessing, I’m gonna say, what? “Hey just promise not to bite or pee on me!” HA HA I think they do that. Yuk. And then, say only what Tommy says a thousand times today – “May Almighty God bless you, in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.” Fr Tommy got after me about not using “in the name of the” but I like how it sounds! Kinda sporty. He’s prob right, again. Just say that old fashion form and not add extra words. At least in these cases. Extra words = trouble.
I asked Vice for a short briefing on this. I wanted him to draw up a statement for the diocesan website. Damn, it was tough to track him down. It’s like he didn’t wanna talk about it. What’s up with that? Can’t look like we were caught off guard. The Noonch couple was bad enough, the way they ambushed me. Glad that’s basically over. Thank God they live in another diocese.
Tonight I was with people with a yool log, which was great. Hot toddys! The decorations were really fun. Lots of lights. Chester… strange… keep growling at the blinking lights on the side of the fireplace. Ya gotta wonder what’s going on in that lopsided head. Or not.
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Fiducia Supplicans (otherwise known as ‘Begging The Question’) is a classic example of political ‘dog whistling’; sending a signal that you know will be heard and acted on by the attack dogs, while you hide behind some carefully crafted plausible deniability. Chester may be picking up disturbances in the spiritual atmosphere to which F.Atticus is tragically tone deaf. Meanwhile in real life, it seems that ‘the hour of darkness’ is almost here. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy upon us! Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
What really hits it with Bishop Fatty, is how many Novus Ordo Priest who are just like him. Yesterday My Wife and I walked around the neighborhood. We have a Church 5 minutes from the house that we don’t attend that is big time Novus Ordo. The Priest and his Buddy, whose is now some kind of church sanctioned Minister who push “the poor migrants” ‘climate change” etc.
We stopped in to make a visit and we have never seen the Priest so happy. We didn’t have to guess why.