Monday, December 12, 2005
Jesus Is A What Now?!
Roomie!Ann just came back from catechism, in tears of laughter, because... because of... because of a lesson her sixth-graders were taught by a guest priest!speaker today.
One of the little dudes (actually, probably a dudette) stuck up her hand and asked "Father, why can't girls be priests?"
Now, LB and I had just sat through a college-level class in which a priest had informed us that women can't be priests because the Church hasn't done it yet, and it takes forever for the Church to change, but he's sure that someday the laywomen of Catholicism will have a larger role, and would we please stop glaring at him now?
Oddly enough, that wasn't the same answer that the small children received.
*Their* priest stood up in front of them and said, "I am, as a priest, the best representation of Jesus. I bring the word into the church. You know, like when a male and female create children like yourselves. You know, the sperm and the egg?"
At this point, according to Roomie!Ann, he repeated the phrase "Into the Church" and made a very large obvious gesture that my mother would have yelled at me for making in sixth grade. A certain gesture I Would... Never... Repeat.... Nope.
:::blink:::
Says Roomie!Ann, tears still pouring down her face, "So now the children have this image of Jesus as a penis, screwing the church the way only a male can."
All I know is it's a good thing I already took my Theology final this evening, before I talked with Roomie!Ann, because otherwise I would never have been able to get through it without giggling in an immature and inappropriate manner. I'm childish like that, you know.
Comments:
OH MY GOODNESS MONICA!!! THE VISUAL AIDES ARE COMPLETELY HILARIOUS!!! I think I just ruptured my spleen by laughing so hard!
monica, you made my day. well, i guess you didn't. the priest did, technically, the way only a male can.
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: 11:40 PM
Oh, *would* you!!!
I remember how, vaguely, but it took me sixteen years to make my Dancing George Bush one and I have to stuuuuudy!
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I remember how, vaguely, but it took me sixteen years to make my Dancing George Bush one and I have to stuuuuudy!
