Hashtag: blesséd

Some things have aged poorly (like Cathy Jones doing red-face) but I got this on VHS when I was 10 and it forever cemented my comedy tastes youtu.be/ioq1kt5uoy4?...

It’s hard knowing how great it was in it’s heyday though

I’m hoping there’s a Mass scene that ends up in the top few most accurate Novus Ordo Masses depicted on screen (with While You Were Sleeping)

Gonna get a lot of mileage out of this one

Don't shoot the messenger!

and in the funniest example, he "jokes" about moving to unleavened bread to minimize crumbs (har har har, the NOM is so concerned with being practical) when it's trads who seethe about the prospect of microscopic Eucharistic dust on people's hands in the NOM

oh, are you some Manichean then?

And like @uhactually.bsky.social said in reply elsewhere, it takes a perfectly fine metaphor (the sower of the seed to the congregation), extends it a bit further to God the Father implanting the seed of the Word in the Virgin Mary (😳), to the illogical conclusion that only men can be lectors

onepeterfive.com/should-women...

The problem with this kind of reasoning is that numerous metaphors are possible and identifying the right one in these terms is impossible. What if I said the female diaconate is actually a profound image of marriage, as the deacon is the helper to the priest just as wife is helper to husband?

I’m prickly about this because I see the substitution of metaphor for reasoning as the overwhelming pattern of lazy thinking within Catholic discourse. Actions are described in terms of a metaphor, and then the (never stated) idea that one must act l so as to uphold the metaphor supplies the rest