{"id":1137,"date":"2006-11-12T10:41:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2006-11-12T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T15:51:25","slug":"fransogs-sunday-ruminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Fran’s<\/del> Og’s sunday ruminations"},"content":{"rendered":"

With apologies to the Great One<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mass this morning was Father Assblanket, once again. I use his presence as a sort of a moral barometer of the quality of my week; if I’ve been a particular prick for a lot of it, I get the Right Reverend Assblanket, and if I’ve strived more than usual to do my best, I get Father Brian, who is as good a human as the day is long.<\/p>\n

Anyway, today’s gospel was Mark 12. As follows:<\/p>\n

1 In the course of his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces,
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\nseats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets.
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\nThey devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.”
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\n2 He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.
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\nA poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents.
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\nCalling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury.
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\nFor they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He uses the widow’s pittance to tell us all we should be contributing more to the church. He’s got this grandiose scheme to finish an unfinished space in the back of the church for use as a CCD area etc. No big deal, good idea, right? Wrong. Rather than get a few parishioners to do the work, he’s gotten quotes from contractors (apparently Palumbo Construction, from the sound of it) to the tune of a million and a half bucks. <\/p>\n

Mostly for drywall, paint, and ceiling tile. <\/p>\n

Apparently, the irony of the first sentence of the reading is utterly lost on him: <\/p>\n

1 In the course of his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces,
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\nseats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets.
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\nThey devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.” <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine)<\/p>\n

He’s made it clear that we as parishioners should be getting second mortgages to finance his project. So far, after a year of whinging about this, he’s been able to get 515 of 2500 people to contribute. Look, assblanket, 20% buy in means 80% opt out. Like the recent elections, this is what I’d liek to call a “message”. the loud, clear message is “I won’t have anything to do with this ignorance”<\/p>\n

I’d love to win the lottery, just so I could write this retard a check for the whole amount- on the condition that he ask to be transferred to the poorest church in the diocese, and take a vow of poverty (diocesan priests don’t do this, as a rule) A couple of years of having to work a side gig to put food on the table might do him some good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With apologies to the Great One. Mass this morning was Father Assblanket, once again. I use his presence as a sort of a moral barometer of the quality of my week; if I’ve been a particular prick for a lot of it, I get the Right Reverend Assblanket, and if I’ve strived more than usual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}