Is anyone curious anymore?  I indict myself when I offer this question.  Chick A and I were real curious for awhile, and our curiosity led us to be received into The Universal Church.  There must be a correlation between extreme busy-ness and lack of curiosity, because the busier I am the more I just want to get by and get on to the next thing I have to do in life.

I’m conducting an experiment at my house, in part to teach my teenagers and in part to prove a point.  My love for the liturgical calendar and the way it tells the gospel story has become my new method for evangelization, so I hang a cross by my side door and “decorate” it in the appropriate liturgical color of that day or season.  See below.

Pentecost Sunday

Advent

Christmas

Easter

Sometimes I miss a day- like this past Friday, when I could have placed a red flower amidst the greenery, reminding me of the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. (I also had wanted to make Grasshopper Parfaits that day, but was too busy AND had no green food coloring…).  Whenever I change it up, the decorated cross that is, I drag both of our kids outside to point it out to them.  ”Yeah, yeah,” they say as they are forced to notice.  The funny thing is, only one person coming and going through that heavily used entrance to our home has ever asked me about the cross.  She is Catholic and a friend of my daughter, and when she noticed the purple ribbon one winters’ day, she asked me about it and its relationship to Advent.  BINGO- I gave her a half-gallon of my homemade iced tea as a prize and told her she was welcome at our house any time.

So today, I am putting that red flower on my cross to mark the Feast of Corpus Christi,  and I am wondering if many of the people in Corpus Christi, TX know the significance of the Latin name for their city.  For that matter, what about the residents of St. Augustine, FL; St. Louis, MO; St. Paul, MN; or Rome, GA?  Corpus Christi is the seat of a diocese in South Texas, and the Cathedral is lovely and historic.  This weekend when I receive communion and hear “Body of Christ”  I’m going to be thinking about the folks in Corpus Christi.  Blessings to you!

Chick B