A Saturday of Meetings

The Bishop of Lexington KY has abused his power over and over again. Having been in Lexington a year, I am not up to date on his shenanigans. So when a friend told me of a "exploring the possibility of a VOTF chapter" I signed on to the meeting. About 20 wise elders met this morning and plan to meet again next week.

The discussion included his recent firing of a woman because she quoted the facts regarding women deacons in early Christianity. (Folks they weren't married to deacons, the women were deacons. See work of Dr. Dorothy Irvin) My comments focused on supporting the writer, sending letters to the editor and holding a press conference on the Cathedral steps when the bishop refuses to listen to our "concerns." I also recommended that we look into CTA membership as they are an activist reform group in the RCC with about 25, 000 members, VOTF has the same.

There was much undercurrent of fear: in the proposals, of others and how they might react, not wanting to be "strident." I thought, but not till later, we are worried about "being strident" when priests raped our sons and daughters and bishops moved the perpetrators to a new parish with new victims time after time? I encouraged the folks to be "fearless" in their actions for "silence is complicity." It was reported that one of the local Protestant non-denominational churches is 50% ex RCCs. How long will we wait till saying "No Mas" as this RCC destroys the spirit in our members and faith communities.

People want goals and objectives, we sure have acculturated the "business model" as the only way to do things. So some will write a position statement and others will work on next steps. By 11:30 we had done all we could till next meeting for the large group(in May after Mother's Day.)

The folks from Preakness were holding a auto wash to raise money in the front parking lot so after I had my car washed and gave a donation. They were proud to be washing cars and happy about the "good job" and thanks from the folks who had their cars washed. It was a perfect day in the 60's and sunny.

I invited a couple of women to the liturgy next week, not sure if they will come but got to get the word out. We are creating alternatives!

Then on to the AlAnon workshop on the 4th step "Taking an inventory of ourselves" Four different ways to do the step where presented by 4 different members some of who have been in the program for 20 years or more. This is an important step for we identify our deficits and our assets. Two hours well spent, no charge so I felt comfortable to purchase books that I thought might be helpful.

Got home in time to fix a salad for dinner, found I need feta cheese, then off to a "reward myself" movie: Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton. Certainly nothing like the original. I really liked the Mad Hatter played by Johnny Depp. He sure is a cutie! Alice is a plucky young women like Princess Lea of Star Wars fame. I liked it except for the violence, didn't think it needed to be so violent and scary. The Cheshire cat was fabulous, so was the Queen of Hearts. I thought the white queen was rather ditsy myself. That woman really did need a "champion."