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\u2026 Today I realized I\u2019d forgotten how to pray the rosary<\/a>. No, not the prayers. The meditations. Was today the Joyful, Luminous, or Sorrowful Mysteries? I couldn\u2019t remember. Then I tried to pray the Angelus<\/a> and that also escaped my memory. Geesh. There goes my street cred, I thought. And what business do I have writing a Catholic blog, my conscience answered back. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not to be held as an example for anything, other than being totally human and utterly spiritually lazy at times. And you can always tell when I am neglecting my prayer life because I start blogging about the gays, and the libs, and the heretics, and baby killers. Anything, I suppose, to divert attention away from the only thing I should truly be concerned with \u2013 making sure my sorry sinning ass gets into heaven. Oh, and making sure my son gets there too. <\/p>\n

Yes, there are such fundamentally horrific sins that deserve our righteous indignation but in our zeal we run the risk of trying to change everything but ourselves. Or at least I do. And when we take it upon ourselves to get up in arms over every wrong what does that imply about our trust in God to dole out justice, I wonder. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve been a bit fanatical lately. It\u2019s who I am, especially when I\u2019m feeling particularly guilty about missing confession or forgetting how to pray the rosary. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t mind me. Enjoy your explosives and alcohol tomorrow. God bless \u2018Merica. Amen. <\/p>\n

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