Blog Lite

Blog? Or Blog Lite? I had the opportunity to drive from Fresno to Bakersfield and back earlier today and that allowed me to listen to a lot of radio programs that were focused on everything from the Rosary with Father Corapi, pro-life concerns and St. Terese of Liseux or Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman to current movie reviews from a catholic perspective.

During every program I thought, “THAT would be a good topic for my blog tonight!” But when I actually sat down to write, there were so many ideas floating around in my head that what I wrote was, in the end, either very heavy reading or incoherent babble.


So like you see in some movies where an author doesn’t like what he has written, I figuratively crumbled up my musings and tossed them in the can! What I actually did, however, was hit the delete key on my computer. Ah, technology! I didn’t even have to pretend to try and “score” a basket when I “tossed” my wad of paper towards the trashcan.


I continued to think about making an entry while watching the local Catholic channel. It’s not EWTN, although they have some EWTN programming. I was getting bored with Marcus Grodi interviewing someone from Sweden (why do most Europeans sound to those of us on “this side of the pond” so dry and monotone?), so I turned to something else until Father Corapi came on. His presentation was on ‘Beauty and Truth.” Still, the material was much too heavy for me to write about today. I made the decision I want to keep the mood and content “Lite”.


The Holy Spirit can really have a sense of humor when He wants to. All I said was, “Please, Lord, let me find something to write about that won’t tax my brain tonight!” The next program on the channel I was watching was called “Going My Way”. It has a singing priest and another one playing the piano and they sing songs from the 30’s and 40’s and joke around with one another and their “guest priest”. I was laughing so hard at the campiness of it all I almost couldn’t catch my breath! If that wasn’t enough, the next program was a Catholic game show called “Divine Intervention”, hosted by a Monsignor, no less! It was even more hilarious, (but at the same time educationally entertaining) than “Going My Way”.


Both programs should be required watching for those who think priests are all stuffy, no-nonsense, humorless individuals. I certainly know my share of priests who convey both holiness and humor. In fact, I heard someone say one time that you'll find that most of the saints, if you study them long enough, had great senses of humor!