“So, you’re on a Spiritual Journey?!!”
-Tom Lynch said this to me after I introduced myself to him, in the aisle at St Peter-in-Chains shortly after Mass one Saturday, right after he took over the parish.
I think this might have been in reference to an email I sent about Sherry Weddell’s talks on Intentional Discipleship, ongoing conversion, the dropping of nets, how people in the pews haven’t been taught about having a relationship with God. Later in 2020 I saw Bishop Meihn announcing Weddell’s program being used at St Alphonsus Parish! They had put a Trespass Notice against me at the parish and then implemented my suggestion!
“You gotta be careful with the Catholic Church.”
-John O’Brien, my sponsor, after I find nails in my tires the morning after an unpleasant exchange with Mike Heffernan after Saturday Mass in 2018, after he had read out the Bishop’s statement on the McCarrick scandal and I stayed after to ask him about a few things. The nails could have been a coincidence. I later asked John why he would say something like that, but he declined to elaborate. I later asked Dierdre Thomas about it, and she said she had no idea why John had said that. I think John liked the gangsta feel to “You gotta be careful with the Catholic Church,” which is one of many reasons why he wasn’t a suitable sponsor.
