Dedications

The story of the thirsty crow was what I was reminded of at Mass today. The parish priest, whose sermons sound like a crow cawing, accordingly delivered a sermon with a cordless mic, so he could caw close to the laity seated in the pews. This is the same priest who tells lectors not to be dramatic and theatrical when they read.

​Hilarious were his theatrics when he started preaching—I mean cawing his sermon—he came with a pot in his hands. The sermon was displayed by the pot on top of his head or cradled in his arm at his side, showing how women in rural India fetch fresh water and walk miles to get it. The sermon was about the Israelites complaining to Moses about how thirsty they were, and the reading was on Jesus asking the Samaritan woman for a drink of water.

​All this to explain the importance of women in today's world. Little did this Thirsty Pastor know; he had not drunk of the history of Women's Day before weaving biblical gospels and readings to glorify and respect women. Above all, carrying a pot to the sermon, little realizing that potters are in a mainly male-dominated craft industry.

​Just like the Vatican, which has idiots like this who demean women being at the altar.

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​The Church, which is male-dominated, should never be speaking about the importance of women. Hypocrisy is worshipping, venerating, or respecting Mary as the Mother of God. So a woman can be the Mother of God, but she cannot be the head of the Church? Nuns cannot have equal rights as priests and celebrate Mass? What Women's Day is the Church even trying to preach? Women's Day, or the recognition of women, was women fighting for their rights with the women's liberation movement. It was never the Church that came forward in history to give women their rights, nor will it do so in the future. Or is the Church wanting nuns to emulate Mary Magdalene, who poured expensive perfume from an alabaster pot on the feet of Jesus and wiped it with her hair?

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Then there was an anecdote the Pastor tried to explain about why a woman who had everything was unhappy. Apparently, it was because she had married a non-Catholic and she was not attending Church services and Christ was missing in her life. What is the message being driven, especially now in India, which is torn with religious divide? So, will a non-Catholic woman marrying a Catholic be happy? Are people in other religions not happy? Or was the Pastor unhappy that he cannot marry?

​As for this Thirsty Pastor who came to preach with a pot about the importance of women, he came with an empty pot. I wish it had some water so it could quench his thirst for knowledge and history.