The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
Open Thread
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Bring out the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Let us follow Him. Let us praise Him.
Let us inform those that don’t know, that God is with us. God is here, right now, forever in our company, forever loving us. We are forever in His debt.
On the feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel we had Mass at 3pm followed by a beautiful procession with Our King. We covered seven blocks in Traverse City. The Michigan State Police served our Lord for the entire procession by temporarily
halting traffic at all intersections.
Concise. ✓
Charitable. ✓
Amusing. 😕
What is funny to me is that many neighbors spend exorbitant amounts of time and money to find a semblance of happiness and or tranquility.
All the while the author of Joy and Peace brings about happiness and tranquility at the cost of opening ones heart. We will always have tribulations, but those turn out to be great returns in disguise as we value suffering as we should.
This is going to be neither concise nor charitable; my apologies, Donald.
Disclaimer: I represent no company, govt agency, church, etc. These are my personal opinions as a free citizen.
HOW A REAL CHRISTIAN RESPONDS
There has been another layoff at my employer after the one in January which occurred several months after we lost a contract. My boss (and my best friend of almost 15 years) volunteered to take the hit this time in order to preserve employment for one of his workers (and my co-worker) whose head was on the chopping block. My boss is a Conservative Republican Baptist Christian. The key word is CHRISTIAN. Do you all now understand what Jesus meant when He said, “Even as ye do it unto the least of these, ye do it unto Me”?
The man whose job he saved called me, crying on the phone that my best friend gave up employment for him. Indeed, my best friend had related to me that he had gone to church service the previous Sunday and the preacher spoke about giving up from ourselves for others, so he took that as a sign from God. Obviously he had forewarning of what was to come.
But I want to speak of a few other things here. The company went public on the stock market a few years ago, and nothing has more of a greater effect in turning senior leadership into morally bankrupt zombies than chasing the stock market. Then a year or so ago three key leadership people were replaced with individuals who know nothing about the individual engineers and technicians who sacrificed to build the company over the past 10 or 15 years, nor do they care. It has gotten so bad that there is a move to downgrade the software quality classification of a certain nuclear-important digital system so as to save on development and manufacturing costs. As the author of that regulatory-compliant program, I won’t stand for it. Saying “there is operator backup to take control in case the software fails” is like saying “we have pilots on the 737 to take control when the software fails.” No sir, I damn sure will not stand for it.
So no, this comment is neither concise nor charitable. And no, I can’t publicly reveal all the intricate details. But I do ask that you remember those who lost their jobs in your prayers, and remember those of us who are left and must pick up the pieces.
LQC.
I will remember them, and you too, tonight during my Holy hour. 10 to 11.
God indeed see’s all and knows mens hearts.
The merit earned will turn sorrow into Joy.
LQC prayers for your friend – that he finds fulfilling employment swiftly. What a terrible position your employee has put your colleagues in. Just pray. Life is perpetually unfair but God is great.
So here is my own rant (and it is not amusing)- Sunday Mass was bizarre tonight:
The Reader read the wrong Second Reading. When he finished Father corrected him and he then read the Second Reading.
Father made a “joke” during the Homily that wearing name tags had nothing to do with being like a republican Convention where they wear name tags…what? He then said that if it was a Republican Convention then people would be wearing bandages on their ears – nobody laughed. He then quipped, “we are not a political Church” (so why make tasteless jokes Father?)
Then father derided everyone for not singing along with the thanksgiving hymn – we were praying after taking the Eucharist Father!
After Mass the “welcomers” were shouting out to the parishioners to stay back and have a cup of tea or coffee, like they were rounding up sheep. Who drinks coffee at 7.00pm at night. I bolted out of there as I had a 16 year old watching dinner in the oven. Mass felt like a clown show.
Let’s just say I went home throughly annoyed by Mass and felt no sense of peace. And my poor family had to endure 5 minutes of this rant.
The End.
By the that Eucharistic Procession in Indianapolis is 🙌
Oh Ezabelle.
Just know that one very positive thing did take place. The greatest thing in the universe.
You had / have Jesus.
I’ll pray for you and your fellow parishioners.
Philip – Thank you for the reminder that we have Jesus in the Eucharist. I wish sometimes priests are reminded that people go to Mass to worship Our Lord. And to receive Grace and Peace. Particularly after a long and tiresome week and we find refuge in the Mass. sigh Peace to you and your family.