Cooties

The Times reports that the Blackburn Cathedral will offer three percent of their worshipers (and their Bishop and Dean) communion bread specially consecrated by boys whenever a female priest celebrates the Eucharist. This way, I presume, these boys won't get "cooties."

They need not be ashamed. A vaccine is available. Here is what you need to do to get the "cooties shot."

Before you go to receive communion from a girl say the following:

circle, circle
dot, dot
now you've got the cootie shot

To be liturgically correct and clinically most effective, have another person use their index finger and draw the circles and dots on your forearm.

Here is an instructional video.



Now the Bishop and Dean of Blackburn and the six people in their Sunday worship will not have to worry about getting cooties from the Sacrament.

Simplified, illustrated and painless

Updated. After every General Convention, I try to round up the Big News and the Big Trends that come out of General Convention for the people of my parish, Trinity Episcopal Church, Easton.

So here is my triennial simplified, illustrated and painless round-up of what took place at General Convention. With, as Bill Lewellis would say, "spin."

This time my perch was not on the Convention Floor but through the blogs, news reports and other sources that made this the most accessible General Convention ever.

Read it here.

Testimony