Thursday, June 12, 2008

Catholic News Agency weighs in

Archbishop of Baltimore asks Legionaries to report area activities
Smile like you mean it....

What a photo op! Alvarito and a portrait.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Smile like you mean it"? Come now, Exlcblogger - you know better than that!

9. The face of the legionary belongs to others. Always display happiness and serenity as a manifestation of inner richness. At the other extreme, avoid all sign of depression, insecurity or timidity. Do not display a worried, sad, melancholy or disgusted face, or show an exaggerated form of happiness.

[from Norms of Urbanity and Human Relations of the Legion of Christ]

Legionaries are specially trained to know just how much happiness to show at any given time. Whether a Legionary means it is entirely besides the point.

Anonymous said...

I'm gonna sue your a$$ into the ground for quoting my writings!!! and PRC AGD is NOT a ripoff of AMDG!!! Ow my head hurts!

Exlcblogger said...

Anonymous, I am sure that you quoted the Norms from memory, right? and more or less paraphrased, right?. It would be good to clarify that in a subsequent posting, so as to protect Exlcbloggers a$$, please.

thanks

Anonymous said...

Some day I'll get you, my pretty ... and your little blog, too!

Anonymous said...

Ding Dong! The founder is dead. Which old founder? The Wicked founder!
Ding Dong! The Wicked founder is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked founder is dead. He's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked founder is dead!

Anonymous said...

The founder is dead but his spirit lives on in the norms, in the constitutions, in the (gulp) lives of his devotees.

Anonymous said...

And should the Legion ever stray from the path marked out for it by God, the founder will come shamblin' back from the dead to set it straight. Lord, he's a ramblin' man!

So how exactly would that work? Would he plop down at a desk with some Black Label and start some spiritual directions? Maybe tell some of his secretaries to come up with some letters he can sign? Or rail against the Jesuits in a plactica? I mean, wouldn't people sort of know something is a little ... off?

Anonymous said...

Hey look, it's Alvarito and his eminence, Rush Cardinal Limbaugh!