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We sang Amazing Grace today.

In the program it was "Amazon Grace"

I think someone in the parish office has been spending too much time on the Internet...

During Wednesday's Mass, the homilist said, "Are you willing to put on God's gym shorts?"

I found that an arresting expression.

"Are you willing to train?" he went on.

Okay, it's been a long time since I posted anything to Catholic Light. A really long time -- seven months, according to the blog software. I guess I got out of the blogging habit, and I've been rather disgusted with the state of affairs in the world. That's something that normally inspires me to write, but this time it's had the opposite effect. I do plan to write more frequently.

Even though I've been gone for a while, I have a request. A couple of offices in my building had a Halloween contest, and several of my colleagues and I dressed accordingly:

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Not to pat ourselves on the back, but it takes courage to dress in tights when you're working for the Nameless Entity. You can encourage this by voting in the American Apparel costume contest. Just go to the page here...

http://store.americanapparel.net/halloweenview.html?e=737

...then click the "Start Scoring" link in the upper right. You'll have to vote for a bunch of lame costumes before you get to ours. When you vote for ours, I don't want to tell you what to do -- just listen to your conscience. (Hint: your conscience wants to rate the costumes as a "5".)

The superheroes thank you for your support.

This item reminds me: if you haven't read her wickedly funny story "Good Country People", you now have an opportunity to enjoy it online.

There's a fairly new site on the web called Agnus Daily offering it up -- I mean, offering up spoofy news "stories" about Church events. Sort of a Catholic counterpart to Scott Ott's satirical site Scrappleface. I particularly like the one about the apologist for agnosticism.

How could you not laugh along with a site that offers this as a headline:

Archdiocese of Los Angeles Voted "Best Performing Arts Venue"

By the way, there's an analogous site that pokes fun that the oddities of life in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, The Onion Dome, and for Evangelical culture, Lark News. It's good that we're catching up with the separated brethren here!

Jeff Miller, the "Curt Jester", has a piece on some new church furniture you might want in your next reno.

We really have to try out some of these quaint Catholic customs from Latin America.

It's named after the northern Ontario community where it's located, but still....