08 July 2007

DrPepper, Pope Benedict XVI, and a "high five"


35 comments:

  1. We celebrated by asking our Bishop, who came down for the Confirmation Mass, to re-affirm, in front of our assistant parish priest, that he had not banned black cassocks, as an option as our assistant priest had said. Many things had conspired to thwart the question from being asked, but Deus vult, and it was done.

    The first step in getting the motu proprio off the ground.

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  2. Are you sure that stuff's not spiked?

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  3. Absolutely sure, Jeffrey; I was simply laughing too much.

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  4. What a great picture! LOL!

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  5. Anonymous11:21 AM

    How appropriate. I mean the Holy Father did release the Dr. Pepper of Papal documents. :-)

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  6. I love it! However for him to give the total absolute high five, it would have had to have been either a Bavarian Beer or at least a Vanilla Coke! I really hope my priests at home are celebrating in kind!

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  7. Very good, Ellen!

    Now, Peter, we really needn't go into the beverage debate again, do we?

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  8. No, everyone knows coffee's the best of beverages.

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  9. What a very nice picture! That's what I call true "filial affection". Greetings from our beloved Holy Father's country!

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  10. Fr. Pepper says the discussion is closed. And we can't argue with a man of the cloth.

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  11. Dare you to drink a mediocre beverage in the presence of an image of our most excellent Holy Father?

    I really must direct a shipment of something, shall we say, more perfect, in the direction of Illinois.

    :-)

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  12. Do be careful, also, in holding a container of the stuff that close to your face. It's volatile.

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  13. Thom: Send coffee. He really hates that. ;)

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  14. Berolinensis, it certainly is filial affection. I am still very hopeful that I one day I will have the great honor to meet him, if only for three seconds.

    What part of Germany are you from? My ancestors came to the USA from the Black Forest region.

    Thom, do be careful. I can send a package your way much more easily than you mine. And I won't have to pay postage :)

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  15. I don't think that the Post Office will allow you to ship Dr. Pepper.

    It's an explosive substance.

    Wouldn't that be domestic terrorism?

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  16. Can't it be used as rocket fuel to send a package via true air mail?

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  17. Quite possibly. It's potent enough. Tastes a bit like rocket fuel, too.

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  18. Forgot again, before the brickbats fly...;)

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  19. AACK

    Heretics and blasphemers;)

    Father: If you`d like to send a case of the Elixer of Life to The Vatican, I`m willing to contribute to the cause. If the HF isn`t a DP lover yet, one sip is all it will take.

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  20. Well said, Brad!

    We could call the DP offices in England or France and ship it from there. Of course, we ought send the DP from Dublin, TX (which still uses the original recipe). It's a bit expensive but it's well worth it!

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  21. You know, the Dr. Pepper people should be paying you for all this free advertising. Perhaps they could become the "official sponsor" of Servant and Steward. Unless, of course, you would have to wear the Dr. Pepper logo on your clothes. Somehow, I don't thing your Bishop would approve, although he may give you snaps for your innovation in obtaining a sponsor.

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  22. Might as well. I've seen equally inappropriate designs on chasubles.

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  23. Hmm...I've not thought about a sponsor for Servant and Steward before...

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  24. Ellen, we may have made a big mistake.

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  25. The posts will go from Ponderables from the Poverello to Ponderables from the Pepperello.

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  26. Father: you'll find out by looking up my name in the index of the Annuario Pontificio ;-)
    But if you don't have it near you, you can simply go to http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dberl.html

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  27. Plenty of room for an official sponsor logo in the sidebar.

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  28. Thank you, Berolinensis, for the link. For the next two weeks I'll have access to the Annuario through the library her at the Liturgical Institute, but next week I return to the parish where we do not have one.

    Your comment has me wondering and I have to ask: you aren't the Cardinal Archbishop of Berlin, are you?

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  29. LOL No, Father, I'm definitely not His Eminence. I'm just one of his humble diocesans. I'm sorry if my comment was misleading, I only gave those references for the meaning of "Berolinensis". I don't really think His Eminence is using the internet. I don't know whether you read German, but one of the younger priests of our Archdiocese (in fact, he's chaplain in the parish next to mine) has a blog: http://vivacatholica.blogspot.com/

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  30. To be perfectly honest, I'd been wondering the same thing.

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  31. I'm glad to have that clarified. You are, of course, still most welcome :) Perhaps you will one day be numbered among the emminent ones.

    Regretfully, I don't read German.

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