"St. Mary Magdalene Income and Expenses Fiscal Year 2008 - 2009"

Source: current bulletin.

Yet more published proof off ongoing nickel and dime rip - offs:

"YOUTH: $60.00"

My personal Response?

Bravo Sierra!

Why?

Because!

Because what, fool!?

Because yours truly gave a flat $300.00 cash to Mrs. Janie Dehoyos in a Super S. air mail envelope, and this was subsequently confirmed publicly by both Nena's sister, who was most likely pushed into doing it by Janie herself, as the remaining teenagers were signaling us through their body language that they were only too well aware of what exactly was in progress!

And thus these other super - bright and knowing young people kept their physical distance from the charades, both sexes managing to look glum, moody and crossed armed all at the same time in the deepening gloom of a mid - winter's Wednesday night after religious services.

Hey, folks! You really think yours truly didn' t pick up on all that, and in a flash?

A little later these same triplet's mother, Mrs. Maria Elena Molinar, mumbled something vaguely appreciative about "money" outside the front door of the church shortly before a 10:30 a.m. Sunday mass, likewise in the presence of Janie DeHoyos and yet other witnesses...

And, now folks, a flat - out omission:

There's nothing this laugh - out loud official report that says, for example:

"ALTAR SERVERS: $100.00"

Why?

Because just like in the spring of 2008, both Altar Servers and Youth Group got shafted, again!

Yet, in 2009, at the same time as the Youth Group got $300.00 in cold cash, the Altar Servers got an even one hundred -- $100.00.

But!

In this case, at least!

We'll let Mrs. Maria Elena Molinar walk, although her own son is an altar server, and thus most likely got short - changed, too!

As most of you are aware, these micro - lump sums of $ cash donations are so much piffle in themselves, yet they can be valuable as seed money for the young people's fund - raisers, such for raising money to make field trips etc.

Such seed - money is not for nimble - fingered young Catholic church society matrons to spend personally on such expenses as Prima Nacha's fifteenth birthday party, or Tía Cuca's anniversary bash or old Mamá Teofila's toothache way down in Santa Monica, Coahuila, etc (heh, heh, HEH!), as we might suppose happened here, although such individual causes might well be otherwise worthy ones :)