O God, Who have brightened this most holy night with the splendor of the true light, grant, we beseech You, that we may know in heaven the joy of that light which we have known mystically on earth.
Sometimes I realize I have no business keeping a weblog. Though I do get a fair amount of visitors, I’m a very self conscious blogger. While on Facebook or Twitter I usually just say what I want to say (with appropriate filters,) when I blog I tend to be like, “Here’s a picture from of my daily life. Um… buh bye!”
With that being said, here are a few things on my minds the last week, month, year…
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Questions about Pope Francis. People will often ask me what the Holy Father means when he says things like, “And since people have a tendency towards the sickness of coprophagia, it can do great harm.”
I don’t know. Coprophagia sounds completely disgusting to me, I have zero tendency towards it, and as much as some people have said this expression is commonly used in South America, I’ve never heard it used there despite my 6 visits, and being taught all the dirty words (to the great hilarity of my teachers,) on my first visit of 2.5 months.
I honestly don’t know, but it’s obviously in the realm of the bizarre.
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What about the dubia?
Cardinal Burke is the voice of those presenting the dubia to the Holy Father. It’s a normalized, though rarely used part of Church practice. Since Pope Francis has not answered the dubia, one can only look to what Cardinal Burke has to say about them. He’s pretty concise in this interview from EWTN:
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“Father, what about your family?”
I had a great time with my family this Christmas Season. I tend to stay busy, and realized I haven’t spent a lot of time at all with my niece and her children. In fact, the picture up top of is of Alyssa the Lovely, my great niece. While it a long story the point of it is, we all got together Monday, the day after Christmas Day, and had a grand time. I’m always preaching about families, and realized I needed to get back to my own. Time flies when you stay busy.
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“Father, we’re so worried about you being transferred.”
Yes, well, I don’t see that happening anytime in the near future. I don’t know why there are rumors circulating about that I will be transferred, but they are completely without foundation. While it’s vaguely possible that the Archdiocese may decide that my charmingly eccentric personality and brilliant management skills (work with me here, people….) may be direly needed somewhere else, the fact is that there are many truly wonderful Priests who could fill any need the Archdiocese needs; and I feel they are entirely happy with my being out here in the hill country. As am I. It’s one of the best places on Earth to be
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“Father, what do you do with all the photo you take?”
I often post them on Facebook, Twitter, or here. The photos on the Parish website are from my cameras. A lot them are sitting on hard drives waiting to be turned into books to leave in the Parish archives for future use.
With all of that being said… Merry Christmas!
