It's worth saying
The politically correct "Happy Holidays" causes my blood pressure to rise. I gave these pins to my staff to wear around town, encouraging them to respond with "Merry Christmas" to all greetings.
posted by Fr LWG at 11:14 PM
Monday, December 11, 2006
The politically correct "Happy Holidays" causes my blood pressure to rise. I gave these pins to my staff to wear around town, encouraging them to respond with "Merry Christmas" to all greetings.
About Me
- Name: Fr LWG
- Location: Peoria, Arizona, United States
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
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4 Comments:
"Happy Holidays" also angers me. According to a new Zogby poll, that's true for most people.
http://www.zogby.com/consumer/consumer13/index.cfm
I hope you give your staff something else for Christmas -- in addition to these buttons and the instructions to do your noble bidding! Do not forget that "Gabdandy" person! Heavens!
I thought you were a little batty when I first read this, but having just returned from gatherings and quests -- and being wished "happy holidays," I agree with you. I do not like it.
Happy holidays is annoying, but probably well-intentioned.
To a few people who wished me "happy holidays," I asked, "Which one?" To one woman, I asked, "Which one do you celebrate?" (She was stunned -- and she was Jewish.)
Good luck with your mission and your buttons ...
I am batty.
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