4/22/2009

Yesterday was very pleasing to me; because of the way Eric seemed to show improvements. I had a good day at the hospital, because I had a chance to visit with Eric’s family, and I ate dinner with them. John (Eric’s dad) came to share some joyous info about Eric making progress just as I had a funny feeling about. I had so much fun having some dinner with Eric’s parents and aunts and uncles. Over dinner John mentioned how I had to eat crow, because of our dispute about a St. Thecla, even though he did not spell it that way. Kyle looked this up on the Internet at the hospital and proclaimed St. Thecla to be a valid Catholic Saint, but I am one who still questions his resources. The Internet frequently has faulty sources so I called a priest right then and there to make this a point of validity, but I got no answer. The issue pretty much died out until this week at dinner. Again John and I had altering opinions… not that either one of us gave a rat’s behind, I think. I called two priests this time, but still no answer. I did pursue this further by asking Fr. Ron at the Knights of Columbus meeting Tuesday night in Columbus Grove. He said he thought that probably St. Thecla existed, be he did not know anything about him. I got home and researched the Internet which I against my former reason for arguing. Anyhow I did find several sits that claimed of a St. Techla. I even found a St. Thecla Parish at www.saintthecla.org. “St. Thecla is a multi-cultural parish located on the northwest side of Chicago. The parish welcomes, respects, and embraces all members of the community. Our mission is to promote spiritual growth to all generations through the celebration of the sacraments, Christian education, spiritual, and social events. St. Thecla encourages all parishioners and members of the community to be disciples of the Gospel message through prayer and good deeds. Our Lord’s message is to “love one another”. We spread His message by giving thanks to God for the gifts we have received and sharing our time and talent with the parish and with others.” There is even a school, but after going to the site I am accustomed to not believe this is a catholic school or church. I found no evidence of such material proclaiming Catholicism, and that was the main cog in our earlier discussion. I looked further and discovered a St. Thecla, and this St. was a she, and that contradicted Fr. Ron’s belief that the fore mentioned saint was a he, but gender was not part of our discrepancy. Therefore John appeared to be right… until that is I kept looking. I found some astonishing news on http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=323. It begins, “According to a popular second century tale,” which I believe a tale is a made up story. Later the article goes, “The tale had tremendous popularity in the early Church but is undoubtedly a pious fiction and was labeled apocryphal by St. Jerome.” I had to look up pious an apocryphal in the American Heritage College Dictionary to be sure, but it obviously means it is a false belief. Unusually she still has a feast day of September 23. That confuses me as does basing my arguments via the web. Nobody wins this time. I am disgusted but not overall since I was the biggest winner in solo at my K of C meeting. It is even funnier, because my Dad was the biggest loser (money wise.) That gives me bragging rights. Two consecutive nights of being the big winner… WOW! Until next time…