Comments on: Brendon Leland Short is Christened http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:21:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: charlie b smith http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-151 charlie b smith Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:07:57 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-151 wow very interesting reading here wow very interesting reading here

]]> By: Brenda http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-70 Brenda Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:21:11 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-70 Yes, I'm aware that my posts are public. That is what a blog is. What I'm surprised about is that you, who don't know us, would be so judgmental. You aren't doing your cause much good, because most reasonable people find your intractability to be provincial and unwarranted. But I must say, you have shed some interesting light on why the priests I have dealt with have been so difficult. The Catholic Church must be a very inflexible institution. All the better for me to stay away. I don't have a thing to be ashamed of, as I never pretended to be a religious icon. My daughter, on the other hand, is considering changing churches. Yes, I’m aware that my posts are public. That is what a blog is. What I’m surprised about is that you, who don’t know us, would be so judgmental. You aren’t doing your cause much good, because most reasonable people find your intractability to be provincial and unwarranted. But I must say, you have shed some interesting light on why the priests I have dealt with have been so difficult. The Catholic Church must be a very inflexible institution. All the better for me to stay away. I don’t have a thing to be ashamed of, as I never pretended to be a religious icon.
My daughter, on the other hand, is considering changing churches.

]]> By: Bobbi http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-69 Bobbi Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:52:19 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-69 Did u ever wonder how I stumbled on this blog. This site is on google and is accessed worldwide as well as all the private info you have shared. Did u ever wonder how I stumbled on this blog. This site is on google and is accessed worldwide as well as all the private info you have shared.

]]> By: Brenda http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-66 Brenda Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:55:44 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-66 OK, I gotta say more. Bobbi was rough on us. Here's the deal: If we had been told of the rules in advance, I would have no problem with the priest being hard on Larry about the gum, but we were not. We were having a hard time. My 89-year-old mother and my stepfather, Fred, came with us, and we had to figure out how to get Fred in the sanctuary and then how to get Fred into the basement for the party afterwards. Fred is in the latter stages of Parkinson's Disease and needs to be more or less carried. My mother is frail. It was very cold, and we had problems finding a place to park. We didn't know about the rules. We are a mixed religious family. I'm not at all religious, and that is OK; Larry isn't either. Fred is a Mormon. Mom is a devout Methodist, and all the Shorts are Catholic. The priest was out of line in giving us a rough time about anything, especially as the christening was almost tacked onto the evening's festivities. We were forced to go to the back of the sanctuary by the fount instead of the altar, because of the 15th birthday photos and etc. We were there to support our DAUGHTER, and our GRANDSON, and our SON-IN-LAW and his FAMILY, not the church. Next time I will think hard about going to anything that requires us to line up like school children at the back of the sanctuary. Oh, how I suffered through the Catholic wedding my daughter had in 2001! My daughter went to church with my mother, growing up; she fell in love with a Catholic, and converted as a teenager. Eight years later they married. She was as good a Catholic as anyone ever raised - very perfect - she only dated one man, her husband; she was amazingly good. The priest (a Noel, Mo. priest) was hardly civil to me because I was considered a heathen. I didn't try to change his thinking then. I didn't explain about the fact I had been a Methodist who was married in the Episcopal Church to a Catholic, and then divorced him later, and that is why I didn't feel like talking about it. Or that when I married Larry I had been told by him that to go to heaven I had to be emersed, so I joined the Baptist Church and got emersed, but he didn't like church so he didn't go, and I decided I would. So I tried to get involved and went to Sunday school and took my daughter, and joined the choir, then was told that I couldn't sing in the choir because I had been divorced and was married to a man who had been divorced. So I quit church. They kept sending me pay envelopes. The kicker was when I went back to church and the pastor told us how we had to vote. After that it is only weddings, funerals and the occasional christening. I have requested that at my funeral, we have no religious service, no pastor, and a cremation with no graveside service. I'm not that worried about the afterlife. If it is anything like this life, they can keep it. Now, what were we talking about? Chewing gum? OK, I gotta say more. Bobbi was rough on us. Here’s the deal: If we had been told of the rules in advance, I would have no problem with the priest being hard on Larry about the gum, but we were not. We were having a hard time. My 89-year-old mother and my stepfather, Fred, came with us, and we had to figure out how to get Fred in the sanctuary and then how to get Fred into the basement for the party afterwards. Fred is in the latter stages of Parkinson’s Disease and needs to be more or less carried. My mother is frail. It was very cold, and we had problems finding a place to park. We didn’t know about the rules. We are a mixed religious family. I’m not at all religious, and that is OK; Larry isn’t either. Fred is a Mormon. Mom is a devout Methodist, and all the Shorts are Catholic. The priest was out of line in giving us a rough time about anything, especially as the christening was almost tacked onto the evening’s festivities. We were forced to go to the back of the sanctuary by the fount instead of the altar, because of the 15th birthday photos and etc. We were there to support our DAUGHTER, and our GRANDSON, and our SON-IN-LAW and his FAMILY, not the church. Next time I will think hard about going to anything that requires us to line up like school children at the back of the sanctuary. Oh, how I suffered through the Catholic wedding my daughter had in 2001! My daughter went to church with my mother, growing up; she fell in love with a Catholic, and converted as a teenager. Eight years later they married. She was as good a Catholic as anyone ever raised – very perfect – she only dated one man, her husband; she was amazingly good. The priest (a Noel, Mo. priest) was hardly civil to me because I was considered a heathen. I didn’t try to change his thinking then. I didn’t explain about the fact I had been a Methodist who was married in the Episcopal Church to a Catholic, and then divorced him later, and that is why I didn’t feel like talking about it. Or that when I married Larry I had been told by him that to go to heaven I had to be emersed, so I joined the Baptist Church and got emersed, but he didn’t like church so he didn’t go, and I decided I would. So I tried to get involved and went to Sunday school and took my daughter, and joined the choir, then was told that I couldn’t sing in the choir because I had been divorced and was married to a man who had been divorced.
So I quit church. They kept sending me pay envelopes. The kicker was when I went back to church and the pastor told us how we had to vote. After that it is only weddings, funerals and the occasional christening. I have requested that at my funeral, we have no religious service, no pastor, and a cremation with no graveside service. I’m not that worried about the afterlife. If it is anything like this life, they can keep it.
Now, what were we talking about? Chewing gum?

]]> By: Brenda http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-61 Brenda Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:59:00 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-61 Oooh. Did I strike a nerve? No, we are not Catholic. Our daughter is. I will let her speak for herself on how she felt about the baptism. My husband and I are not religious. I'm a Methodist, but haven't been to church since I was a child. My husband is a Baptist, and ditto. One of the reasons I don't go to church is the attitude you expressed here. My husband's gum chewing was not a big deal. We came after mass, as instructed, as the christening happened at the back of the church. As for the spelling, we have it correct here. If you think I made a mistake, go here and compare: http://home.catholicweb.com/stcanera/index.cfm/staff As for Fr. J's eyeglasses, they don't sell Christian Dior at Lenscrafters, but they do sell D&G frames, which are probably what Fr. Jarek's are. I think they sell for around $179, which is about typical for frames. I wasn't making an issue of his frames; I thought they were cool. Why? Are priests supposed to take a vow of poverty or something?. Oooh. Did I strike a nerve? No, we are not Catholic. Our daughter is. I will let her speak for herself on how she felt about the baptism.
My husband and I are not religious. I’m a Methodist, but haven’t been to church since I was a child. My husband is a Baptist, and ditto. One of the reasons I don’t go to church is the attitude you expressed here. My husband’s gum chewing was not a big deal. We came after mass, as instructed, as the christening happened at the back of the church.
As for the spelling, we have it correct here. If you think I made a mistake, go here and compare:
http://home.catholicweb.com/stcanera/index.cfm/staff
As for Fr. J’s eyeglasses, they don’t sell Christian Dior at Lenscrafters, but they do sell D&G frames, which are probably what Fr. Jarek’s are. I think they sell for around $179, which is about typical for frames. I wasn’t making an issue of his frames; I thought they were cool. Why? Are priests supposed to take a vow of poverty or something?.

]]> By: Bobbi http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-60 Bobbi Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:47:56 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-60 It is so wonderful to experience a baptism and it is also a moment of great importance as a parent and godparent because the responsibility is great. You promise to raise the child as a member of that faith and teach that child what it means to be a Catholic but it also means that you have to set an example for that child to follow. I had a problem with the way you handled the incident about the chewing gum. Is this not considered food? Are there not fasting laws that no food or drink can be consumed one hour before? Why was not Mass a part of this great event? In your blog it indicates that maybe you are not a practicing Catholic or an infrequent one or you would have known this. Also you would have known the correct spelling of the pastor's name especially if one reads the bulletin of ones church. I'm glad that you think he will be a good priest someday because obviously he is a good priest today for doing what he did about the gum. What he did is mild compared to having the nuns instruct you in Catholic school about the fasting rules. By the way those glasses look like the ones sold at Lenscrafters. Christian Dior glasses are for women and I don't think he would wear those. It is so wonderful to experience a baptism and it is also a moment of great importance as a parent and godparent because the responsibility is great. You promise to raise the child as a member of that faith and teach that child what it means to be a Catholic but it also means that you have to set an example for that child to follow.
I had a problem with the way you handled the incident about the chewing gum. Is this not considered food? Are there not fasting laws that no food or drink can be consumed one hour before? Why was not Mass a part of this great event? In your blog it indicates that maybe you are not a practicing Catholic or an infrequent one or you would have known this. Also you would have known the correct spelling of the pastor’s name especially if one reads the bulletin of ones church.
I’m glad that you think he will be a good priest someday because obviously he is a good priest today for doing what he did about the gum. What he did is mild compared to having the nuns instruct you in Catholic school about the fasting rules.
By the way those glasses look like the ones sold at Lenscrafters. Christian Dior glasses are for women and I don’t think he would wear those.

]]> By: kilbyblog http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-7 kilbyblog Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:13:44 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-7 Themes! I'm still playing with it all, and the theme I had chosen doesn't allow an RSS feed. This one does. So have at it and I'm so glad someone is commenting. I wish the others would. Themes! I’m still playing with it all, and the theme I had chosen doesn’t allow an RSS feed. This one does. So have at it and I’m so glad someone is commenting. I wish the others would.

]]> By: Marilyn http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/brendon-leland-short-is-christened/#comment-6 Marilyn Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:45:20 +0000 http://brendakilby.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-6 Hi, Must admit I was a little confused to find that "no comment" meant it was possible to make a comment. Will get the hang of this soon, I hope. The Christening was lovely & if I were treated like Larry would convert to Druidism on the spot. Enjoyed reading about the Yule customs as well. Could you sign me up to be notified when you update? I think I saw it someplace on the blog, but it escapes me at the moment - frazzled by the holidays. Hi,
Must admit I was a little confused to find that “no comment” meant it was possible to make a comment. Will get the hang of this soon, I hope. The Christening was lovely & if I were treated like Larry would convert to Druidism on the spot.

Enjoyed reading about the Yule customs as well. Could you sign me up to be notified when you update? I think I saw it someplace on the blog, but it escapes me at the moment – frazzled by the holidays.

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