March 7, 2025 12:01 AM
Looking to the bright side having just entered Lent, I had a funny exchange with my teenagers yesterday. We had attended the Noon Mass in our parish. Father distributed ashes just prior to Mass. somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 people were there. It is beautiful to see.
First, my daughter noticed as we headed to the truck after Mass was over that I seemed perturbed. Asking what the matter was, I told her, “I have a forehead you can see from the Space Station and yet I always get a wonky smudge.” Seriously, Father, you can do so much better. With this canvas, I expect not only a cross, but the hill of Calvary, two thieves, and the Blessed Mother as well.
Second, on the drive home I let out a chuckle. My son asked what was funny. I told him, “Ever have one of those funny thoughts pop into your head where you have to laugh at the absurdity of it? Well, I was just remembering back to my earlier life when I was not a Trad. For the first forty years I went to Novus Ordo. You see, son, our priest just now pronounced Latin words. Memento homo… Remember man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.” In the other one they might say that but they’re ‘free’ to change it up. ‘Turn away from sin and do good,’ ‘Repent and believe in yourself,’ ‘Jesus loves you because someone should.’ are all things I’ve heard. But my favorite was a fruitcake old deacon who traced a cross on my head while saying, ‘Shuffle. Ball. Change. SPARKLE!’”
We laughed the whole ride home until I told them it might have been a slight exaggeration.
Anyway, today is the first Friday of the month of March. You know what to do.
https://fatima.org/first-friday-devotion/
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