Wednesday, 15 December 2010
I VERY MUCH DOUBT IT
This card came through the letter box today. It's from the church of St. Francis where I was an associate priest until being "made redundant" earlier this year. Somehow, I don't think they really mean it and the last thing in the world they would want is me turning up at one of the Christmas services. Also, the general sentiment of their message is a lie. I am living proof of that.
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Go anyway.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm brave enough when I'm at home on the computer. But I don't have the balls to do that, tmtim.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you afraid of? Their discomfort?
ReplyDeleteNo, silly! Mine.
ReplyDeleteYou could go just for the seasonal refreshments and gobble up as much as you can as quickly as you can and then leave.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mimi. But then I wouldn't want my Christmas lunch and you know who would kill me.
ReplyDeleteHa! Right after I got sacked, the first correspondence I received from the Diocese was a fund raising letter asking me for money -- seriously!
ReplyDeleteI had been taken off all the other mailing lists - but not THAT one.
I sincerely sympathize, MadPriest.
I have to say I think this was inexcusably rude on the part of the parish which just happens to have put you out in the cold. Really and truly.
ReplyDeleteIn the spirit of the season, let's assume ever so briefly that the invitation was intentional and authentic. Even so, when I headed out from my faith "camp," not that staying was an option, if you take my meaning, I was looking to travel some "distance."
ReplyDeleteOh, KJ, sometimes you can be so Christian, you old softie!
ReplyDelete{{{MP}}}
ReplyDeleteThanks, JCF. But I'm in a pretty optimistic mood today and can see the funny side of it.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't go either.
ReplyDeleteThe bastards. (I hope Mimi won't mind me borrowing her phrase just for a moment.)
But I'm in a pretty optimistic mood today and can see the funny side of it.
ReplyDeleteI knew something was different!
Yes. The subscription thingy is going a lot better than I ever thought was possible. We are over a quarter of the way to the target and I'm actually beginning to have positive thoughts about the future of my ministry. I do not intend for it to be restricted to just my online activities. But the online activities could make it possible for me to do something new and exciting out there in the real world. I'm thinking - The Mimi Memorial Mega-Church. But don't worry, I don't expect you to die first. It will be a memorial to a living legend.
ReplyDeleteI dunno. If I'm to be a memory, it seems to me that I'll be under a bit of pressure.
ReplyDeleteLots. You'll have to wash behind your ears. your public will expect you to be spick and span.
ReplyDeleteI shower every day. :-)
ReplyDeleteI know. And you take bloody ages.
ReplyDeleteAnd how would you know that? Was there a peephole that I didn't know about in our neighboring bathrooms?
ReplyDeleteMy WV is "couth". You have no couth.
No. But most taxi drivers would have given up and left.
ReplyDeleteThat's why we hired a chauffeur, although the best we could find at the eleventh hour was a MadChauffeur.
ReplyDeleteIs the address label a sticker or is it handwritten?
ReplyDeleteIf it is a sticker label, then probably some receptionist like me just stuck it on the envelope like any others and paid no attention to the name on it and stuck it in the mail with everyone else's. And of course, such labels would be printed from a computer.
If it's handwritten, then I should think someone took some note of the name. Maybe. Unless the person doing the mail is new there.
Well, you can consider mine a pledge for every week. I am just not giving anyone access to take funds out of my account, especially PayPal. I am a control freak when it comes to my money!
ReplyDeleteI just need to remember to do it.
Un-bloody-believable.
ReplyDeleteI hope someone from your former church reads this post and realises what they've done!
"The subscription thingy". . . has there been a marked uptick since you put the 'subscribe' button in the sidebar? Just wondering.
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