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"My soul is foolish. I’m cheap and jangly"...
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 11:33 "... I’m in poor taste, inadequate, irreverent, wanting and paltry in every way. My heart is made of little beige bricks and burlap. And for some reason, God keeps showing up anyway." Mrs Simcha Fisher has a certain moral and spiritual point, indeed, with respect to our attitude toward the sacred rites; she points out in a comment, "I was thinking more of what our attitude should be when we really have no choice in the liturgy or decor." One can set one's jaw and engage in brief but Pirellian exchanges with the pastor every Sunday, and write the appropriate letters when the occasion occurs (but it does only very infrequently because most of the "burlap" is arguably woven by the ecclesiastical authorities themselves), or else really have no practical choice for Masses of obligation but to simply accede to the existence of the "little beige bricks and burlap" and pray. What a mess they have made of catechesis these last forty years, alas... et cetera-- I have other things to do so won't conjugate myself to lamentation mode. @vaticanspy g a.
