Yay! now our priest is playing "preach to the choir" things I already do, so I'm not challenged at all. Which may actually be a bad thing, what if I don't grow? I'm more concerned about the people who are shocked by his teachings, things the church has taught forever, that somehow these people have never heard of: you have to go to Mass every Sunday, using contraception is a mortal sin, go to confession often: even the Pope goes twice a day.
There we go there's my lesson, I don't go to confession enough, I'm not against it, I just don't know how. With this priest as my only option as confessor, it's always a little weird, like only knowing Algebra 1 and taking the calculus final (Why don't you know, you're here at the test aren't you?)
Confession just wasn't big in my RCIA class, we were too busy arguing about why no contraception, why the saints, why infant baptism, why no immersion baptism, things near and dear to my protestant upbringing. We barely covered the mandatory material, But I did like the argument model better:
Why do we believe...?
Because it's here in the Bible, church tradition, the Pope said so and this phrase here in the Bible translated to the original language and somehow through greek back with the most meanings in English means most precisely that we must believe in ... because it is so obvious that we have to believe it as absolute truth.
I had the best "co- sponsor", she somehow had all the answers, she was a convert who didn't want to, so she learned every thing about it, everything. Now she's Catholic because it's so obvious.
In knitting news:
I am a selfish knitter, there I said it. I'll knit for my kids and sometimes a dear friend, but that's the extent. I have a theory about why hand knits cost so much. Not because of how long it took to make them, but that after spending all that time with that project it would just break your heart if one day the person that bought it got bored with it and threw it away. So you figure, no one will throw away a $100 pair of pants, they'd at least sell them. So your knitting will live on if priced high enough.
Any way, I want to knit for charity "taking care of widows and orphans" so orphans a good choice would be the mother bear project. I don't know about widows, and the troops are dear to my heart, maybe beanies? I don't know. But what if these people don't love my stuff, and just throw it away? I guess I'd never really know, but it would probably keep me up wondering.
Speaking of being selfish, I think I am going to share some webkinz outfit patterns. So look out.
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I didn't know you were blogging. I checked here when you first signed up, and you hadn't started yet. Now that I know you are up and running, or shall I say writing, I will have to check back often. As for those WebKinz patterns, that sounds very interesting. I bet my girl would love to try some of them.
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