09 May 2011
396
R. Linda:
Usually, I don't take the time for this particular subject matter, but THIS bit of news has finally got to me. Today I was informed a Catholic church in Dublin was holding a memorial mass for the late Usama Bin Laden. Yes, indeed. I was wondering if UBL was after all a Catholic and we didn't know it. I know it seems far-fetched but what other explanation could there be? So I had to look into this, you know me, a nosey parker par excellence. I rang up a friend of mine in Dublin and asked about this service, where, when and why. He was perplexed he was and said it was the first he'd heard of it. He had the same question as I, was UBL a closet Catholic?
Well, so interested was he, that he asked his wife about this. And may the saints preserve us, she did know! She said it was true a parish in Howth (north of Dublin) was indeed holding a service this coming Thursday.
"And ya never taught to tell me dis?" Her husband asked while I waited on the other end of the earpiece.
"Well, at tirst I didn't bloody believe it," says she, "But den I taught well, Jaysus wanted us to forgive and maybe dis particular parish was plainly puttin' dat to da test."
"And it's dis Turdsday?"
"Ay, it be at 10 in da morn at the Church of the Assumption." She stated sounding very positive.
I wanted so bad to ask if she was going, but I did not.
"Gabe," says me friend, "Let me git back ta ya on dis. I can hardly believe me ears."
And so, I hung up scratching me noggin wondering if that was indeed the reason, but still, what was the truth of it really?
So I rang up Father Murphy at a local church for his reaction. At first there was dead silence on the other end of the phone. Then he asked me to repeat me question. I did and he said, "Yee-ah I taught dat wuz wot ye said dere Gabriel. Well, perhaps dat church be taking Jaysus's words literally but den He also taught us to be peaceful people and not to kill each other for what we want and that man certainly didn't practice that. We believe the Lord has the final say. I don't know dere Gabe, something seems off."
I thought the same thing. An hour later I got a call from me friend in Dublin he had the scoop he did.
"Well dere Gabe, I know the whole of it. Bloody mess and very embarrassin' it be too. Seems da church be sayin' dat someone messed wit da church programme and pranked the congregation. The congregation be upset wit da priests and the church officials have taken the programme back. Den later it was reported dat, and as ye know yersel, any church member can request a mass said fer the dead and that's wot really happened. They know who dis be but dey didn't make his name public . . . yet."
"So it's all a mistake, a prank, for real, for what?" I said.
"Well, depends on how ye look at it I reckon. Someone requested it, someone else put it in the church bulletin and printed it (eejit editor), sent it out and well, ye see the reaction was not exactly . . . uh . . . Christian? I don't know the word for it, ah yes I do, not appropriate."
I was thinking on the other side of this, ULB must be swirling in his watery grave to think he's having a Catholic mass said for him. He didn't like Christians and Christians were referred by him as crusaders, so what's the deal? Are we to love our enemy even though he has vowed to kill us because he doesn't like our religion, lifestyle, and culture? On the other hand, a man who clearly didn't like Christians would not appreciate a Christian mass said. Or is that the reason why it was requested? Hum, seems to me there could be much debate on Christian teachings coming. Not from me, but those involved in said crisis management.
Gabe
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R. Linda:
Usually, I don't take the time for this particular subject matter, but THIS bit of news has finally got to me. Today I was informed a Catholic church in Dublin was holding a memorial mass for the late Usama Bin Laden. Yes, indeed. I was wondering if UBL was after all a Catholic and we didn't know it. I know it seems far-fetched but what other explanation could there be? So I had to look into this, you know me, a nosey parker par excellence. I rang up a friend of mine in Dublin and asked about this service, where, when and why. He was perplexed he was and said it was the first he'd heard of it. He had the same question as I, was UBL a closet Catholic?
Well, so interested was he, that he asked his wife about this. And may the saints preserve us, she did know! She said it was true a parish in Howth (north of Dublin) was indeed holding a service this coming Thursday.
"And ya never taught to tell me dis?" Her husband asked while I waited on the other end of the earpiece.
"Well, at tirst I didn't bloody believe it," says she, "But den I taught well, Jaysus wanted us to forgive and maybe dis particular parish was plainly puttin' dat to da test."
"And it's dis Turdsday?"
"Ay, it be at 10 in da morn at the Church of the Assumption." She stated sounding very positive.
I wanted so bad to ask if she was going, but I did not.
"Gabe," says me friend, "Let me git back ta ya on dis. I can hardly believe me ears."
And so, I hung up scratching me noggin wondering if that was indeed the reason, but still, what was the truth of it really?
So I rang up Father Murphy at a local church for his reaction. At first there was dead silence on the other end of the phone. Then he asked me to repeat me question. I did and he said, "Yee-ah I taught dat wuz wot ye said dere Gabriel. Well, perhaps dat church be taking Jaysus's words literally but den He also taught us to be peaceful people and not to kill each other for what we want and that man certainly didn't practice that. We believe the Lord has the final say. I don't know dere Gabe, something seems off."
I thought the same thing. An hour later I got a call from me friend in Dublin he had the scoop he did.
"Well dere Gabe, I know the whole of it. Bloody mess and very embarrassin' it be too. Seems da church be sayin' dat someone messed wit da church programme and pranked the congregation. The congregation be upset wit da priests and the church officials have taken the programme back. Den later it was reported dat, and as ye know yersel, any church member can request a mass said fer the dead and that's wot really happened. They know who dis be but dey didn't make his name public . . . yet."
"So it's all a mistake, a prank, for real, for what?" I said.
"Well, depends on how ye look at it I reckon. Someone requested it, someone else put it in the church bulletin and printed it (eejit editor), sent it out and well, ye see the reaction was not exactly . . . uh . . . Christian? I don't know the word for it, ah yes I do, not appropriate."
I was thinking on the other side of this, ULB must be swirling in his watery grave to think he's having a Catholic mass said for him. He didn't like Christians and Christians were referred by him as crusaders, so what's the deal? Are we to love our enemy even though he has vowed to kill us because he doesn't like our religion, lifestyle, and culture? On the other hand, a man who clearly didn't like Christians would not appreciate a Christian mass said. Or is that the reason why it was requested? Hum, seems to me there could be much debate on Christian teachings coming. Not from me, but those involved in said crisis management.
Gabe
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