Chick at rest . . .

Chick spent a good part of the afternoon peering out the window at the cats that like to visit our front porch. She saw the cats and the cats saw her. The cats understood the safety of the window between them so rather enjoyed taunting poor Chick. As you can see in the picture, Chick was in great need of rest after all that trauma. She doesn't want to hurt the cats just give them a sniff or two and, perhaps, bat them around for awhile!

Something Accomplished This Day . . .

Now that the holidays are over, children are back at college, and life has eased up a bit on immediate responsibilities, I'm back to trying to earn some extra income with my sewing. Today, I completed three Our Lady of Guadeloupe aprons. I discovered the pretty rose fabric and it seems to go well with the picture prints. Posting them for sale, tomorrow, and hoping I have an excuse for sewing more of them next week . . . because these sell quickly!

I remembered to get some more black yarn so I can finish the border on the granny afghan that is nearing completion. I just have a few more rows of border to put on and it is done.

Took the easy way out for dinner. We found some spicy Asian cooking sauce at the store a while back so I browned some boneless chicken and am letting it braise in said sauce along with a bit of white wine and chicken broth.

Rain is in the forecast but no sign of it yet.

The Responsibilities of a Pastor . . .

A friend related to me, yesterday, that when her pastor isn't available to celebrate daily Mass, his secretary does a Communion service complete with reading the Gospel and a little homily-like talk. I checked with a priest friend about the 'rubrics' on this and he said that this sort of practice has been condemned by Rome through the years. This makes me wonder if the priest is so uninformed of proper procedure in the Catholic Church or does he feel entitled to run his parish as he deems fit.

Seems to me that if he knows better but choses to do it anyway, he could be guilty of the sin of disobedience to the Church and with leading his parishioners astray, especially the foolish secretary who probably feels quite the thing being in 'charge' at the altar.

If the priest is able to claim invincible ignorance of the correct protocol on Communion services, he is still amiss in his duties to his vocation because I'm willing to bet this was covered somewhere in his seminary studies.

The erring priest should also be aware that every person who goes forth from his church convinced that this practice is legit, expands the scope of the priest's primary 'sin' in going against the rule of the church. No wonder it seems that our Faith gets watered down when a pastor doesn't hold it in the esteem it deserves.

All worth thinking about . . .

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
-- Soren Kierkegaard

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
-- Evelyn Waugh

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
-- Ann Landers

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-- George Bernard Shaw