So I’m back from mass and what an oddball mass this was.
First, there is my new priest who is still wowing Delaware with his homilies...he officiated at ALL THREE masses this morning and we couldn’t get a parking spot.
Below is my post when I interviewed Father Flowers, check it out.
We interview a new guy in town who couldn’t decide if he wanted to go into politics or become a priest. So Father Tom Flowers became a priest and still is into politics. His take on the Pope and Catholicism in today’s America.
So the organ is broke and this 700+ person mass is being done by piano, annoying me mightily.
THEN there is an accident on the road adjacent to the church....oh and the choir was singing but we were singing two songs that I know, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, but I got this alto behind me who sings all the wrong notes and wrong words....but I digress.
The accident took place on Tulip drive, in Lewes Delaware, was supposedly a bad one and the 10 am mass had to start late.
Father Tom, my hero, is officiating but again, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, he was wearing this vestment covered like they are with a horizontal and vertical strip....and those strips were covered with....say what?
LEAVES!
I’m mouthing to all my choir mates what the hell is this with Father Tom’s leaves? Then we note the church door rims are too covered with leaves.
Father Tom....heh, you never know what he’s going to do. He’s got some of them walking about...one homily he did on abortion and made some people mad.
By the way...Lewes Delaware was settled by the Dutch, did you know that? My church is on Tulip Drive....get it...get it?
Heh.
So the choir sings, terribly with me totally giving up and let’s not forget that awful piano.
Now before the mass I chanced to park next to Father Tom’s car....goofball drives his car from the rectory to the church-about 75 feet apart, a little red thing zips along. I found a sticky note in my Jeep and as his window was slightly ajar I wrote “Hi, from Pat Fish” and stuck the little note on his passenger window.
So after the mass there’s Father Tom outside greeting people like priests do and during the mass his thing was...you got to laugh I’m not making this up.....Father Tom says “ ‘When I say ‘God is good’, you respond ‘all the time’. If I say ‘All the time’ you say ‘God is good’.
So we did that a couple of times and after mass he tells a couple that his car is right there, and he points to some little red car across the parking lot. I’m thinking, dear Lord I put that sticky note on some stranger’s car.
But I look at the car Father Tom pointed out and I’m thinking “that’s not his car”. Man got a bad knee but I worry about his brain.
So I directed the couple to the REAL Father Tom’s car -which has a Knights of Columbus license plate, but of course. His car was right next to my Jeep so me and Diane Feinstein are talking next to my Jeep when out comes Father Tom with the couple he misdirected. I told Father Flowers that I knew he sent those folks in the wrong direction cause I put a sticky note on his car.
“I got a sticky note on my car?” he asks.
Heh. Well maybe you hadda be there.
So Father Tom reaches in and gets the sticky note, heh, and he shouts...”GOD IS GOOD!”
Then he waited. It might be hard to believe, but I forgot all about that “ALL THE TIME” thing and was stymied.
So Father Tom refreshes ailing short term memory of both me and Diane Feinstein then he had a momentary moment when he couldn’t find his keys. After some seconds he finds them.
I shout...”GOD IS GOOD”. Father Tom, the mysterious couple, and Diane Feinstein shout “ALL THE TIME”.
Then Father Tom shouts “ALL THE TIME” and we all shout, with parishioners still exiting the church and no doubt thinking we are all drunk....”GOD IS GOOD”.
Heh.
Again, maybe you hadda be there. Pleasant memory. And it is a beautiful day here in the swamps.
Now let me catch up on these Sunday talk shows.
Hey!
It could have been worse, like bagpipes and banjo.