Drive Divinely
Sparxafire!
Warning: If you are Roman Catholic, I’m sorry.*
It is very pertinent for the Statecraft Informer to speculate about matters pertaining to “church and state.” Thus my attempt to discuss the Vatican’s “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road.” If you read the announcement directly from the Vatican site, you may also be amazed that it contains provisions (in part four) for “PASTORAL CARE OF THE HOMELESS (TRAMPS).”
It was good for me that they clarifed the “HOMELESS” by adding the parenthetical (TRAMPS). Ah! now I understand. I have come to expect nothing less from the Holy Roman Catholic Church over the years.
I have a fervent Catholic acquaintence who is dying. She is in her early 90s. She has spent the past 25 years praying hours each day because, in spite of her lifelong devotion to the Catholic church, she is not 100% certain she is going to heaven.
She is absolutely terrified of Purgatory, is eager to sit at the Right Hand and all, but she apparently committed a few whoppers in her day…(mortal sins, I think they’re called…) and, well… it’s touch and go. But she fights to keep going, because according to Catholics, the more you suffer on earth, the less time (as measured in hours, perhaps) you have to spend in Purgatory.
Isn’t that just sweet? Such a comfort and all. Well. If not “comfort” so much, at least there’s a system in place – surely a fair return for a lifetime investment in feeling guilty all the time. It almost moves one to make a contribution, to the Recovering Priestophelia Fund or something. So much love.
*more than you know…..
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