No Fish Today!
Those faithful Catholics eating fish today the Lenten Friday will be pleased to know that today is the feast of St. Joseph, the most chaste spouse of Mary, the Mother of God. Since it is a solemnity, we are allowed to eat meat. In this way the unexpected joy of celebration breaks into our routine forty days of ashes and sackcloth. I think I will have pork wrapped in bacon served on ham for dinner.
Lisa “I’m going to become a vegetarian”
Homer “Does that mean you’re not going to eat any pork?”
Lisa “Yes”
Homer “Bacon?”
Lisa “Yes, Dad”
Homer “Ham?”
Lisa “Dad! all those meats come from the same animal.”
Homer “Ri-i-i-i-ight Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal!”
In that spirit, and to all you fathers out there, happy Feast of St. Joseph.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
