Today at mass the advent
Today at mass the advent wreath caught fire someplace in the middle of the liturgy of the eucharist. We all pretended to contemplate the miracle of transubstantiation while an usher beat it to death with his coat.
This is what's wrong with Catholicism in a nutshell.
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I don’t understand “This is what’s wrong with Catholicism in a nutshell.” Are you saying we (mainline Christians) concentrate on our own church rituals while ignoring those trying to put out the fires in the world? Something like the criticism of Anglicans in “The Comfortable Pew?”
I just think it’s terribly funny, and it’s a lovely metaphor.
I mean a lot of things; that’s the beauty of metaphor.
But to footnote a little: If we seal off our rituals from the living, breathing, burning world, they empty. They are meant to be structures to shape our lives, not barriers against them. The more I follow the Hours, the more I feel this.
And also, yes, if the world is on fire, why are we pretending it’s not? Why is the door to the soup kitchen round the back?