Sometimes it's a good thing to remember the lunacy of previous days so that we can do all we can not to repeat them. I was in Florida visiting my friend Susan in 2021 during what I can only think of as the Lunacy COVID Twilight Zone Time. Fortunately, things were normal at the SSPX chapel in Sanford where we went for Ash Wednesday, but lunacy reigned in many other places. Priests really were using Q-tips to distribute ashes. Have you forgotten? I thought it was worth looking back on the insanity and promising ourselves never to let the hoaxsters and hucksters delude us again. So I repeat the blog post Susan and I wrote together using our alter egos Topsy and Tuptim. Don't fast from laughter this Lent. Smile and spread cheer as an alms that's good for both the mind and the heart.
Remember, Alligator, That Thou Art Dust...
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| Really!? A Q-tip? |
Topsy: I had such bad dreams last night and got so little sleep and had a terrible nightmare. I kept waking up screaming, "No God! No!! No-o-o. Pleeeease!" ...Didn't you hear me?
Tuptim: That was you? I thought it was me. I had nightmares too. What was your dream?
Topsy: I was following an alligator into his underwater den. Then everything got really crazy. It looked like an ugly modernist chapel.
Tuptim: Oh my gosh! That was my dream too except I was being chased by the alligator!
Topsy: Did you end up in a chapel?
