Church/Religion Everywhere

It's just been one of those days where church and religion seem to pop up everywhere and sometimes in unexpected places.

I woke up this morning and heard a news report about a priest being prosecuted for taking funds from a parish to fund trips. Of course, I'm cynical, and immediately figured it was nothing new.

Then I had to publicize a program night at church that was going to be publicized via email and word of mouth. With December being so crazy with odd deadline for items for the Church Bulletin and all the other things that go with the month of December, I never even got our program night mentioned in the church bulletin. At our parish, it is not an easy thing either to get something in the bulletin. So, I've sort of been boycotting the bulletin also, because I can take the inefficiency of it.

Then after work, I had a drs. appt. I always take a book or something to do because I don't have the capacity to just sit. Right now, I am reading Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church by Angela Bonavoglia. I put the book down when the doctor comes into the office. I have only seen this doctor 2 times in the last 12-18 months, so I don't really know her well. She sees the title and asks about the book. She was really interested in it. It was odd, because I just wasn't prepared to talk about the church while I was in the doctor's office.

Then I get home, and there are emails about the Girl Scout Religious Medals. Emails from a couple people. I teach a religious medal class and it is turning out to be an interesting experience. I'm sure it will come up in a later entry.

The best thing was that my youngest daughter had already finished her homework by the time I got home. She makes her first communion this year. We had a chance to do a few exercises in her gold communion book. She enjoys doing them and we had to sing Alleluia a few times. It's one of her favorite things to sing.

Finally, I decide to check email one last time, and our pastoral associate was very kind and passed along my email invitation for our program night to a whole bunch of people from both within and outside our parish. Staff at our parish aren't big on encouraging people to attend things unless it is one of their projects. So, it was so invigorating to see someone take an interest and encourage people to attend something.

So, its been a rather busy church life day, even though there was nothing big. Just a lot of small things that came together.