Goals
Early in life I wanted to be a priest. Wanted it enough to spend six years in the seminary. it wasnt the crawling out of bed in the wee hours for Matins or Lauds that bugged me, I still have no issues with early rising, it was the life of a priest. People who don’t know, you have no idea. oh, sure, Diocesan priests lead an apparently cushy life, but the orders, especially the monastic orders, who exist out there on the thin edge of Christianity, those guys have a life you cannot possibly imagine unless you’ve lived it for a few years; I have. I’m not strong enough to do it, and I’m glad I figured that out before I took any permanent vows.
In the 90’s I wanted to be the only person Leo Buscaglia never hugged. Nuff said.
A year and change back, I just wanted to be able to sleep through the night without my hands waking me in screaming pain two or three times a night.
Now, I’d like the Zombie Apocalypse to begin, that I might hope to see it’s end prior to the end of my life, to know that my child will be safe.
And I’d really like a decent pair of American made shoes, which I’m going to be going here to get
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My brother is a Claretian in your fair city. He’s been there now for almost 20 years. It’s a very hard life, but he is very dedicated to the work of counseling those facing death. (Aren’t we all facing death?)
I wanted to be a nun at one point in my life. Heh.
Joan:The Claretians do live a hard life. I hope you pray for him regularly, if I know the order, hes too busy praying for others to waste any on himself.
Being a laissez-faire American Baptist PK/MK I wanted to be a Yout’ Minister so that I could play softball and hike the Sierras and do other fun things all the time. After one Youth Convention I was disabused of that and all the other notions…
Since I am one of the group you are not fond of I will leave out affliation. I too would like to see this slow motion train wreck finally come to a stop so I can forsee the future my son and daughters will have. Right know it looks like I will have two fine son-in-laws to help with the zombies, I’ll just need to get a few more peace keepers.
All things in Gods time.
“Since I am one of the group you are not fond of”
What you mean by dat, Paul? I like you just fine!
Methodist. I know you like me fine, but you have been less that kind to the group :-)
lol. That would have been something of a surprise to the people at the Methodist Mission I hunted from in Africa.
I have about 5 pairs of hand made boots. Many think it is an extravagance, but when you figure one pair at 500 will out last 3 pair at 200, it’s a good deal. Only problem is, it really spoils you when your boot maker dies and no one takes their place, as happened to me. But I have a line on another one!
Cool. Sometime back I got a different impression. My bad. You are one of my most favorite people I have yet to meet.
We need to go south and hunt pigs sometime.
Paul: It’s hypocrites and morons I have no use for, and they exist in ALL faiths.
What? Og hates Methodists?? Damn it, I’M a Methodist!
I’m going to have to completely re-order my worldview now, damn it!
(I THOUGHT something was kind of fishy!!)
From Blazing Saddles: “I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the West. Take this down. I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.”
Methodists always had great street cred with me since I saw the movie in my early teens.
I’m sure even with Diocesan priests, your mileage may vary. The stuff I’ve seen in some rectories, the sane people leave you alone, the crazies have the office number on speed dial. If the Rosary Sodality isn’t having a turf war with the Altar Society with 80 year old women fighting battles left over from school days, the Knights are not communicating with the office and blowing up when their event isn’t published, then there’s bringing accounting up to date from the scrap paper notes left by the lady who only spoke Slovak, then if there’s a school yoy, not to mention dealing with Corporate (diocese) screwballs who don’t know your situation but can lecture you. All that on top of making sure voluntary donations keep the lights paid and the roof patched. Try running a tavern on “pay what you feel is right.” Many non-Catholic Christian churches either have annual dues, or require tithing, to even belong. Some even have the more you donate, the closer you can sit to the front!
Since only the largest parishes have assistant priests anymore, it’s amazing how many live alone dealing with all this. I wonder how many priests fell to scandal from that aspect. They ought to have some sort of diocesan priest communal living for parishes near each other instead of solitary confinement, so they can at least fraternize and commiserate with fellow pastors.
Damned straight mts!
Paul: It’s hypocrites and morons I have no use for, and they exist in ALL faiths.
Roger that.