I love their total dedication to the project:
"We're real excited, though. We've been staying up until like 9:30 or 10 every night, putting the finishing touches on it."
Probably my second favorite post (right after the man who changed history with his birthday wish). Of course, you have to remember that advertising IS my profession so I can feel this couple's intensity and dedication. :-0
Bless their little hearts for caring! Imagine focusing, and devoting so much time on something that doesn't even pertain to your life like that. Wow. You know, there's this butt ugly Methodist Church just down the road, I wonder if I took the time to go inside and do some sketches of the church I could come up with some new idea's about how they could turn the place into a real eye catcher. Really turn the place around. Maybe I should call Tammy first and find out what she thinks, and maybe that dentist friend of hers too.
Good one Maureen...
:o)
Julie - Thanks
Lucy - That cracked me up about your plan to visit the church down the street. LOL Maureen
the Redmans are pitching the idea of confession by email and mass via internet live chat. "We are just going to eliminate actual human contact, and nip that problem in the bud," said Steve.
That is hilarious!
Hey Angela - Thanks...it's good to see ya, too.
God bless, Maureen
I think they are on to something Maureen. If people email their confessions, the church can use an automated reply system instead of high paid priests. Donations can be accepted through paypal and communion can be distributed through UPS, with a shipping and handling fee going to the church. If the parishioner forgets to paypal their donation, the church can conveniently "forget" to send the communion.
Have Steve and Tammy considered web cam mass instead of the live chat room? If the service is pre-recorded, parishioners could fast forward through the boring parts. Less "conservative" Catholics can even watch the service in one windows and internet porn in another. It can all be confessed via email at the end.
I disagree with them on the coke sponsorship thing. The real money is in bottled and canned holy water – refreshing and spiritually cleansing.
Cycles,
When you get into the idea of watching a service and porn at the same time, with the intent of confessing it immediately after, then you are getting into "sins of presumption." Of course, less-than-orthodox Catholics may not be bothered by that. And, using a shipping and handling fee to receive communion would probably fall under the sin of "Simony." Here again, less orthodox Catholics may not be bothered by this.
You know, Madonna's sect has done pretty well with selling Kabbala water. The only thing is, in the Catholic Church, you can't sell blessed objects, and since holy water is blessed, that wouldn't work. So many rules. Oh well.
If Steve and Tammy host another focus group in their kitchen, would you be interested in participating?
God bless, Maureen
Aren't we blessed that changes in the church come after years of prayer and discernment and not a focus group discussion in Steve and Tammy's Kitchen. The Holy Spirit has the right idea, who knew?
Maureen, I agree with Cycle2 -- Confession by email has a certain appeal; in this day and time "it ain't easy being penitent." Confession times: 9:45-9:50AM every third Tuesday and be on time because the priest isn't going to sit there all day and wait.
On the other hand, as one who generally chews and swallows her "laundry list" after absolution, I'd want to be sure that the system used a very good encryption program.
Isn't this how the new Mass was written?
Tom,
We need you to go over to Happy Catholic's place and heal a rift that is forming over the movie, "Spanglish." We need you to write an interpretation of the one you did of Harry Potter.
Maureen
No rift over any movie can keep me away from here ... and I'd LOVE to see Tom's take. :-0
Yeah, I think Tom's interpretation of Spanglish would be hilarious. You know he would see things no reviewer anywhere saw in it. Ha
God bless, Maureen
Maggie - Well, I am sure with Steve and Tammy at the helm, things will really start picking up.
Linda - A good encryption program! Wow, I hope they've thought of that. Ooh, and what if some hacker got into the Vatican's web site and made all the confessions public. That's worse than a priest's microphone being left on by accident.
Maureen
I'm going to sue you for making me laugh so hard that I now have belly ache. That was so bad that it was good!
God Bless.
Sue Maureen? Aw, now UK, where is your sense of humor?
Linda,
being a Brit, I have seriously dry (warped maybe)sense of humour.
Britain is fast becoming the 2nd leading compensation nation in the world behind the U.S however 
God Bless.
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