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Oh, goodness gracious! You\u2019ve caught me all in a sweat my dear! I was hoping to get this weeding done before the sun got too hot, but I\u2019m all in a lather, and this straw hat isn\u2019t much good is it? You think it looks nice? Thank you sweetie. Isn\u2019t he a dear? How old? Just seven. Isn\u2019t that grand!<\/p>\n
Now, Felicity don\u2019t apologize. It\u2019s always nice to see you and Dominic, and it\u2019s no trouble at all. I was wanting to take a break, and now\u2019s the perfect time. I made some lemon cake this morning, and I was wondering who might drop in to help me eat it.<\/p>\n
Where is the rest of your wonderful family? Out camping with Dad? How exciting! All seven of them? Why didn\u2019t you go Dom? Poison ivy? How terrible! I\u2019ve got just the thing\u2013some of Grandma Watkins\u2019 special lotion. I\u2019ll go and get it.<\/p>\n
Come along dear. You can fix us some iced tea while I freshen up for just a moment. Dom, honey, you sit on the porch for a moment. In the box there are some toys. See what you can find love, while Mummy comes with me, and we\u2019ll be back in a jiffy.<\/p>\n
The tea\u2019s in the refrigerator dear. Ice in the freezer\u2026There. That\u2019s better. I thought you were looking rather upset. Father who? Crappy isn\u2019t such a nice name is it dear? Oh, Corapi? I\u2019m afraid I never heard of him. Is he one of our local priests? Here we are Dom. Is that a spaceship? Made out of Lego? How clever you are! You don\u2019t want Grandma Watkins\u2019 lotion. Well that\u2019s alright. Don\u2019t you worry.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s sit here shall we dear? You take the rocking chair, I don\u2019t mind. Oh, on television? I\u2019ve tried watching that ETWN network dear, but it just didn\u2019t do much for me. I kept thinking that Mother Angelica reminded me of Captain Pugwash in a habit. Isn\u2019t that awful? Then she had that eyepatch and it made things even worse! But I liked that Marcus Grodi. So good looking! But I never really connected much with it. To tell you the truth, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a very good idea for a priest to be a television star. Too much temptation!<\/p>\n
Well, that\u2019s interesting. You say he was the one orthodox priest in the church today and now everyone is saying he was rich and running around with women? Involved with drink and drugs and fast cars? Oh dear, oh dear. But you mustn\u2019t defend him dear. It\u2019s very possible you know, and if you say he was a television star, then perhaps the temptations were just too much for him. Commit him to the good Lord and move on is what I say, and you know he\u2019s not the only good priest and teacher. There are quite a few good men out there if you stop and listen.<\/p>\n
You know, I\u2019ve been thinking quite a bit about this whole matter while you were talking and I think I\u2019ve figured out why I didn\u2019t like EWTN very much. I know they meant well, but I always felt they were promoting their own form of Catholicism, and I\u2019m always worried about any group of Catholics who set up on their own apart from the bishops and the parishes. You see dear, so many people seem to want excitement in their religion. They want to see apparitions of the Blessed Mother or they want a miracle or they want some holy man or holy woman to get them all excited, and it usually ends in tears. I\u2019m too old for that sort of thing my dear, and I\u2019m always sad when I hear about Catholics who complain about their parish priest and bishop\u2013as if they know better!<\/p>\n
My favorite priest is old Fr. O\u2019Driscoll who I visit in that retirement home. He was just an ordinary parish priest his whole life and served people at the everyday level in an ordinary church and never really did anything exciting or special\u2013except to say Mass every day and hear confessions and preach simple sermons and marry people and bury people. He\u2019s the one for me dear, and if you don\u2019t mind me saying so, you and Bryan would do well to stick with the local parish and support Father Baldwin\u2013even though he\u2019s rather tiresome and grumpy at times. Did you know he once called me a meddlesome old biddy? Well, I laughed and told him he was absolutely right and that he was the grumpiest priest I\u2019d ever known, and after that we\u2019ve been best of friends.<\/p>\n
Dominic? I\u2019ve had an idea. I have an old pup tent in the attic that needs to be aired out. Would you like to help me put it up, and then you and Mummy can come back this evening and we\u2019ll set off those fireworks I\u2019ve kept from the fourth of July and have a campfire and cook hot dogs, and then camp out in the tent.<\/p>\n
That will give you a little break Felicity dear, now go on\u2026have another slice of that lemon cake.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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