Cat Flea Bites...

[sandyRoe]

I was giving next doors cat a bite of dog food this morning and while I was at it I gave it a stroke or two. The thanks I got was a flea bite on my face. I don't want to be going to Mass this morning looking flea bitten. How can I disguise the mark?

[sandyRoe]

anneasquith, I rarely go to chapel now. I feel I've reached a stage on my journey to salvation that the ritual and trappings of the church are redundant. That's just me, of course. Most of the people who do go still need all the help they can get.

[Tilly2]

Sandy! A wild goose chase!

[sandyRoe]

Can you get fleas from geese, too?

[Tilly2]

Haven't you heard of goose bumps?

[dunnitall]

No dandy only golden eggs....as for fleas, don't touch the cat!

[dunnitall]

OMG...I typed sandy!! Maybe you are a dandy too lol

[sandyRoe]

I used to read the Dandy and the Beano but that was some time ago. Even my best friends wouldn't call me a dandy.

[SirOracle]

You must get up to date Anneas.....Confession has long since been re-titled as the Sacrament of Reconciliation. ( A rose by any other name...........)

[sandyRoe]

I sometimes think the church is going to hell on a handcart. Done away with the Tridentine Mass, Limbo, Purgatory, and Hell hasn't the prominent place it once did. And now to cap it all the Sacrament of Penance is rebranded as 'Reconciliation'.

[dunnitall]

Foreign words to an atheist I think, meaningless twaddle but whatever floats your boat eh.

[DTCwordfan]

Just get gness to visit your church; she has a thing about entertaining priests or, put it another way, chaos, disaster, hell and priests go hand in hand. Should be entertaining to watch though.

[jomifl]

Crisis temporarily averted 'til next Sunday lets all pray for a miracle cure for Sandy, you know it makes sense..

[sandyRoe]

Whimsy about Mother Church is all very well but the sad fact is that it's like taking tentative steps across the crust of a cesspool. You're never very far from the consequences of the behaviour of the monstrous regime of paedophiles who had infiltrated the ranks of the clergy.

[jomifl]

Surely all that is forgiven Sandy.. After all god's law trumps criminal & civil law..

[sandyRoe]

In this case civil and criminal law don't go near meeting JC's directions on the matter. Matthew 18:6 puts it nicely.
But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.

[jomifl]

well that's quite clear then, seems as if heaven isn't an option for some despite owning a crucifix.

[sandyRoe]

To my mind there are few things that can't be forgiven and the abuse of children is among them. A brief sleep with the fishes and an eternity of hellfire seems an appropriate punishment.

[askyourgran]

The quotes are true enough sandy, I'm sure there is one in there about fleas, or is it a camel? Anyhow goodlife might show up and put us straight....
Pride and Vanity are terrible things, a mere spot on your head has stopped you from seeking the solace of receiving the Mass, when the flea has already received yours. The bite may not have been noticeable to anyone in the congregation, and may I be so bold as to say, do any of the speak to you?

[sandyRoe]

AYG, I suppose I was thinking of this when I decided not to go. Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent.*
He's been sleeping with dogs again, they'd have been saying.

* He that lies down with dogs shall get up with fleas.
We started with cat fleas and by a circuitous route have come to the doggy variety.

[jomifl]

Sandy, there are worse things than fleas that you can acquire when you lie down with dogs...