Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Have A Beer, Fathers

On Grand Isle, at the mouth of Bayou Lafourche, a friend who witnessed the event tells Grandpère that, on Father's Day, the Roman Catholic priest at the church on the island shot holy water on the congregation from a water gun. Then he asked all the fathers in the congregation to come forward, and he gave each of the men a can of beer but asked them to refrain from popping the beer cans open until they left the church.

Posted without comment, because I can't think of anything to say.

11 comments:

  1. You've got to be kidding me.

    His name wasn't Ron, was it?

    I only ask because, well, Fr. Ron overdid it a little with the Holy Water at Easter so the staff got back at him with water guns. Sans the blessing of the H2O, of course...

    The beer I don't know about. I just don't know.

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  2. Should reassure those heading for Rome in search of "Orthodoxy".

    Wonder what the good father was on.

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  3. Missy, I don't have a name.

    Lapin, he probably had a few beers.

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  4. Or a bit too much of that communion wine...

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  5. Separate beer cans? Sounds too congregational/protestant to me. A true Catholic would insist of all partaking from the one keg!

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  6. RR--Bahahahahaha! Spot on!

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  7. RR, maybe the pastor wanted the experience to be memorable, a special day, so he did something different, out of the ordinary.

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  8. You know I've gone all TEC now, right?

    Or so says the Mad One!

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  9. Fran, I thought you were to be the leader of the underground cell to plot the overthrow of the bad guys.

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