Compared to Eating a 2000-year-old Man

Since my last column was one of vexation, I thought I must say a word of admiration as well. I thought this was the cutest thing I have come across in quite a while, and surprisingly profound.


This is from the pen of one Laura McAlister, who described herself as a Catholic, writer, tea-drinker, evangelist, Austenite, feminist and aspiring countess.


http://www.lauramcalister.com/2013/07/16/should-i-veil-a-debate-between-me-my-brain/


 


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Should I Veil? A Debate Between Me & My Brain

The following is a completely accurate transcript of the conversation between me and my brain…


Brain: Hey Laura


Me: Hey there brain, what’s up? You come to trouble me about something again?


B: I was just wondering, do you veil for Mass? Like, do cover your head before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament?


M: Um, I wear like a berety/beanie thingy… sometimes, mostly when I go to the Latin Mass. That counts right?


B: Totally, but do you wear it out of reverence for Christ or because it’s the middle of winter and you’re so cold you’d wear a balaclava if you could?


M: … Mainly because it’s cold? I don’t know… Honestly, I haven’t decided…


B: Well, I think you should wear a veil at Mass. It’s a beautiful, traditional Catholic devotion for women that expresses reverence for God, specifically in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. What’s not to love?


M: Me wear a veil? You have got to be kidding me.


B: Nope, entirely serious.


M: But I can’t wear one of those. It’s just so weird!


B: Laura, you’re at Mass…. You’re already eating a 2,000 year old man who is also fully God under the form of a thin wheaten wafer… On the weirdness scale of 1 to Eucharist, veiling is averaging – at most – a 2½. Plus, it’s so pretty!


The rest is here: http://www.lauramcalister.com/2013/07/16/should-i-veil-a-debate-between-me-my-brain/


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