Real quick - there was no internet to be found at my house yesterday so I'm going to do my best to double-post today.
5 Good Reasons to be Scared Today
1. When I got in my car today, eating a piece of cold pizza slathered in roasted garlic, I thought the Vue was greeting me with a Halloween message, but really I had just mistaken "Odometer" for "October".
2. A kid, with the most sincere expression and tone, excused his absence on Wednesday by saying that his family had spent Rosh Hashanah at home preparing for the End Times. Seriously, the kid spent the day reading Revelation and trying to tie Nostradamus prophesies to current events. So.... if this kid's dad "feels a rapture coming on" is he going to miss more class? On the bright side I really didn't see Sarah Palin as the Whore of Babylon, but it does kind of make sense and now I can be prepared. Why else would a woman only own red suits?
3. Cardinal John Henry Newman has been disinterred and is to be kept in a church on Halloween and All Saint's Day in preparation of a mass honoring him and promoting his cause for sainthood. Read about it here.
4. Perhaps they are digging up ol' Newmie in hopes of finding that he is incorruptible. What's incorruptible? Why I thought you'd never ask: 10 Incorruptible Saints. Check out especially St. Bernadette who died in 1879 and as of a really 80's looking photograph still looks like she's just sleeping.
5. This is my favorite Sesame Street segment of all time:
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2 comments:
I just have to say that incorruptibles are amazing. They are. However, I find them insanely creepy- when my brother and I were in Siena, We saw St. Catherine of Siena’s head and it is SO FREAKY. Not to mention that for some of these saints, they chop up their bodies so that parts of it can tour the world and bring the miracle to the masses. That’s great in theory, but seeing a 400-year-old thumb displayed in a glass dome a la the rose in Beauty in the Beast... well it’s just not my bag. But good for JHN (do you know that Jen's guardian angel is named 'Newmie'?)
"You're a strange bird, Upham".
You're right- all five of those things, six if you include Karen's post (which, Karen, I agree with you- not my bag), did indeed scare me.
After a solid month away from your blog, I have some catching up to do.
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