April 28, 2013
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Today I went to a first communion of the child of a family friend. While I was getting my hair done yesterday, we debated proper presents for a communion and if giving cash, the threshold where a child of middle class means would feel insulted. $15 seemed to be the most popular answer. $20 or the cost of 4 beers at a local brewery was too much. Three beers sacrificed from my pocket, on the other hand, that’s an adequate gift for a non-relative. And there you go.
Said Family Friend was a speaker at a very interesting event yesterday. In Kentucky, Rosemarie Smead was ordained as a priest. Pope Benedict blanket called all women ordained would be excommunicated. But Smead, who in her past lived as a nun and obtained a doctorate degree, teaching at Indiana University psychological counseling (this is how she knows FF who is a licensed psychologist), pretty much said at 70, there’s really nothing the Catholic church can do to frighten her away. Although the organization carrying through the ceremony is not officially recognized by the Louisville Archdiocese or the Roman Catholic Church, those backing Smead say she is not leaving the church but leading Catholics into a new era.
Is this enough to get me back to church? No it isn’t. I’m the outlier of my family. Although I do have immediate family members who left the Catholic church to follow Islam and Judaism, they follow an organized faith. But if the papacy were to recognize women as church leaders, it would make me disagree with the institution one step less. Opening the door to discourse on the subject would at least make this Pope’s esteem rise in my view.
I’m wondering if both these kids will still be practicing Catholics in 20 years.
Comments (4)
Beer as a gift for a communion? I’m guessing that gift goes to the parents of the kid…but I thought the kid was the one supposed to be getting presents. I’m confused.
But, yeah, Catholicism is as ass backwards as you can get.
@In_Reason_I_Trust - Nah. Kids get vodka, the drink of choice for old women on diets.
@Lenore_Happenstance - I’m MORE confused now. I didn’t have an alcoholic drink until…I guess I must’ve been 19 or so.
Don’t joke! Just tell it to me straight. LOL! Where is this, and are children really drinking vodka?
@In_Reason_I_Trust - I think the only place kids can drink legally is in church after First Communion. And whatever mixers they can pair with Red Bull. I don’t know, it’s been a while since I’ve been in charge of any sticky babies.
What I meant was I-I-I would have to sacrifice money I would and or could but most likely would spend on 3-4 beers to give money to a kid furthering her indoctrination into a club where I ain’t a fan. So I’m propagating that part of the show. But I’m a pushover. If she gives me puppy dog eyes I’d give her $15 to get the hell away from me.