... the Sacred Host as a Psychiatric Placebo ...

"Faith Issue Number Two ... is the Nganga Tree ..."


"Tuesday, November 3, 2009

"To: The Most Reverend Oscar Cantu, DD. Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, Texas.

"Re: Archbishop's Appeal Acct. # 056000273 09 IPS -- A Parish Accounting Credibility Issue -- plus two (2) Faith Issues.

"Dear Excellency:

"Because of what appears to be a routine case of ongoing parish - wide theft by accounting fraud as well as the more regular routine plundering of cash donations to various parish organizations by any number of otherwise God - fearing good people, whether clergy or lay, yours truly has decided to increase my share .. of Archbishop Gomez's Annual Appeal ... to equal around $2,400 or so...

"Faith Issue Number One for yours truly is what appears on our parishioner level to be an ongoing developing doctrine of the Sacred Host as a Psychiatric Placebo exclusively reserved for such use by the children of those parents who themselves physically aggressive and intimidating enough to get their way with both priests and deacons.

"And sure enough!

"Our clergy obligingly smile, fawn and grovel...

"And [the parents] get [their] way...

"At the same time, they are steadfast in continuing to insist that other parents have to play by the rules.

"Faith Issue Number Two for yours truly is the Nganga Tree at the right front of our parish church, festooned throughout this month of November with colorful paper leaves bearing the names of the deceased.

"Last November, just before the last 5:30 p.m. Saturday Mass of the month, the Rev. Mr. James Bader, Deacon came strolling up the church aisle pushing a typical out door bar - b - q grill, which I guess served here as a sort of nganga, at least in the [secondary!] anthropological sense of a so - called cauldron of sacrifice.

"Then, disregarding any and all municipal and county fire codes, as well as those of the State of Texas, ... the Rev. Fr. Pius Ezeigbo lit up the bits of paper within, that were formerly hanging from the Nganga Tree, thereby formally demonstrating publicly that we 70 to 90 persons present were witnesses to a genuine indoor paper - trash burning mitote, or spiritualist New Age ceremony.

"The smell indicated the two men and their young male altar server were using some kind of accelerant -- most likely charcoal lighter fluid; the smoke and fumes were something to experience, your excellency!

"Your excellency, as I've been publicly urging our youthful CCD / Parish Youth Group and Altar Server teachers and trainers..:"

AND HERE'S WHAT WE TELL'EM!

"Look, tell your pupils and their parents to be up front with their non - Catholic friends and neighbors.

"Tell them that there's no excuse for any of this.

"Tell them, If what you're hearing about what our priests and deacons are doing themselves and trying to get us to do, too, sounds like a lot of anti - Christian mumbo jumbo, there's a simple reason, o.k.? It is because it is a lot of anti Christian mumbo jumbo!"

"Thank you, Your Excellency!

"Respectfully submitted,

"Bad 'ole Dennis ..."