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Category Archives: Favorite One-liners
Favourite One-liners Volume 7 (Coniston St Paul the Apostle Knights of Columbus edition)
“Welcome to the club.”-Pat Masson (when I was made a lector) “I don’t have a cell phone and I don’t use social media. I’m hanging up.”-Sandra Boyd (when I asked her to listen to what had happened re: Facebook posts, … Continue reading
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Favourite One-liners Volume 5 (The coincidences, innuendos & pastoral amateur psychoanalysis edition)
I believe with my entire being that the priests and staff deliberately used innuendos to frustrate me, leading to anxiety, confusion, helplessness and anger. All of these emotions lead to trauma, as Arthur Henry told me. I don’t think they … Continue reading
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Favourite One-liners Volume 4 (Privacy edition)
“What do you need privacy for if you’re not doing anything wrong?”–Mr Brookes, Eucharistic Minister from St Alphonsus Parish, Principal of the Parish Elementary SchoolI had met Mr Brooks at Adoration and so when I started to think there had … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Community Life, Favorite One-liners, PIPEDA FIPPA MIPPA, Privacy, Rights of Data Subjects
Tagged Wrong Speech or Right Speech?
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Favourite One-liners Volume 2 (from 2015, 2016)
“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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Church enforcers, coincidences, enchanted reality, Global Church vs local churches, RCIA, Sherry Weddell, St Peter-in-Chains Cathedral in Peterborough, ON
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Favourite One-liners Volume 1 (talking to women)
“You talked to the priests? Why’d you do that? Priests are men!”-MT, a lady in Toronto from their local Catholic Women’s League “They get those jobs because they can smooth things over.”-HB, a religious sister explaining the types of priests … Continue reading
Posted in Community Life, Favorite One-liners, Interior Life
Tagged acquiring Christian behaviors, being a convert, Catechumenate, Christian-as-a-Second-Language (CSL), Favourite One-liners, Healing wounds, meaning of life, RCIA, Reconciliation, Single adults, Spiritual Physician, women ministering to other women
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