[Tax-chick]

I champion your musicians, too, and that reminds me that I need to put the CD of "Mormom Tabernacle Choir Sings Patriotic Favorites" in the van for the next few weeks before July 4. Maybe the byos will spontaneously produce brilliant harmonies, with enough exposure!

We have three new priests being ordained - maybe it was this weekend, come to think of it - but we have old ones retiring, too. The Carolinas went through a slow period in priestly vocations, but the Charlotte diocese has recovered and should soon have more local ordinations than retirements, as well as "imports" - from Latin America, Asia, and the lands of the Yanks - moving in.

It would be nice if poor, overworked Father Gary could get a Spanish-speaking assistant, or an African. Ethiopians speak the same language as our local Eritreans, just like we speak the same language as the Yanks ...

[Tax-chick]

Aw, freep. I previewed three times, what with changing the formatting, and still ended up with “Mormom.”

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Good people, the Eritreans. Had one for a roommate before I made the grave error of getting married.