Sleep Well Tonight, Skippy
Scene: 90th General Convention of The Episcopal Church. A general business meeting of the House of Deputies.
President: The Chair recognizes the delegate at-large.
Delegate: You better recognize me, honey, we’ve been together for 40 years.
President: On and off.
Delegate: On and off yourself, toots. Anyway, I see that the next order of business is an addition to the church Kalendar. This is an addition dear to my heart . . .
President: OK, OK. Does the chair of the Combined Committee on Resolutions and Legislation have her report?
DELEGATE Segways to a podium where she takes off her ID badge and replaces it with one of another color. Entity President, I do. As you know, it has long been the sentiment of the Convention that the Church Year was incomplete without inclusion of a season recognizing the founders of the modern Episcopal Church, without whose sacrificial and prophetic efforts we would not have survived to the present day. Their labors secured the financial resources that sustain us even now, and it’s only right to establish a season of commemoration.
PRESIDENT: Yeah, yeah. How long is it to last?
DELEGATE: 52 weeks, Entity President.
PRESIDENT: Seems reasonable. And the liturgical color?
DELEGATE: Folding Green, of course.
PRESIDENT: OK by me. Any debate? I’m not going to have to take the Con side again, am I?
DELEGATE: Why don’t we just say it’s unanimous? We’re both for it, aren’t we?
PRESIDENT: All right. All in favor say aye all opposed nay the motion is carried unanimously and the Season of St. Katherine the Litigator and all the Little Litigators is added to the Kalendar of The Episcopal Church. Now can we get on the Resolutions condemning racism and Israel, and approving Planned Parenthood’s Babies are Icky Campaign? I want to adjourn and hit the wine cellar.
Sounds about right. I especially like that the two of them are the only ones there.
Posted by: Dr Alice | January 11, 2009 at 06:18 PM