Non Tasarmi, Fratello!

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!” Hillaire Belloc

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Religious Literacy Test Fail


The Stanley Cup’s back-to-back tour with the Penguins wasn’t without a holy sacrament this year.
On Wednesday, Philip Pritchard, Hockey Hall of Fame’s Keeper of the Cup, shared a few snaps from the Michigan baptism of Pittsburgh winger Josh Archibald’s son in Lord Stanley’s Mug.
“Three-week-old Brecken Archibald gets baptized out of hockey’s Holy Grail (Brainerd, MN) #stanleycup @penguins @NHL @HockeyHallFame,” Pritchard tweeted.

Holy Sacrament?  No. Neither. Not Holy, nor a Sacrament.

Definition of sacrament

  1. 1a :  a Christian rite (such as baptism or the Eucharist) that is believed to have been ordained by Christ and that is held to be a means of divine grace or to be a sign or symbol of a spiritual reality 
    b :  a religious rite or observance comparable to a Christian sacrament.
      
    That is no more a sacrament  than this:




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