Our Lady of Fandom, Thursday

[scruffnfeathers]

Someone had filled the holy water fonts with rum. Castiel was doing his best to ignore this.

His topic for his sermon today seemed important enough that he'd written himself several note cards, but when he went to the pulpit to give the sermon, he found himself unable to use them.

Someone had snuck in and scratched out several key words and replaced them with the word "squirrels".

He was stuck winging it (so to speak) again.

"I would like to speak to you all today about forgiveness. There is saying amongst your kind that 'to err is human; to forgive, divine.' This is very much true -- one of the many things the Lord has gifted humanity with is the opportunity to repent and earn His forgiveness for one's sins. So long as one lives and breathes, one can repent for any transgression and be forgiven for it. It must be true repentance, of course -- contrary to some historical beliefs, repentance cannot be replaced with monetary gifts.

"Humanity, of course, has the ability to forgive each other, as well. It is not always an easy task, but it is a noble one, and one I encourage each of you to practice in your day-to-day lives. If someone has trespassed against you and truly repents his or her actions, search deep within yourselves for that power of forgiveness. It will improve not only the other person's life, but also your own."

He went on to provide examples of various transgressions both small and appallingly large, for which one might be forgiven, either by the other party or by the Lord, and finished off with a brief note that, contrary to what some might believe -- and here he looked down at his note cards, neither "forgivness", "repentance", or "the Lord" were synonymous with "squirrels".

[ooc: Church is in session. Now with 100% more rum.]

Comments

Listen to the sermon!

[scruffnfeathers]

Or just get trashed on holy squirrels firewater.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[irulan-atreides.livejournal.com]

Irulan thought the sermon went well except for the end. She didn't know what the 'squirrels' have to do with the topic of forgiveness.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[bitchprince]

These kind of sermons were a little less common in Arthur's neck of the woods, but not unheard of, so he allowed himself to slouch the tiniest bit as he listened.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[living_endless]

Didi's thoughts during the sermon drifted more to forgiving others, rather than being forgiven.

She considered that mental pattern until before he started talking squirrels and confused her again.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck almost thought they'd get a normal sermon for once...until the bit at the end. So close.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[thatsamilkshake]

Yet another sermon Francine could actually follow! Mostly because she'd taken it waaaaay too much to heart waaaaaay too long ago. Still, she had no problem with nodding along.

And wondering why the holy water smelled so weird.

And not, no, remotely considering going up to talk to Castiel about the thing he hadn't even left her a message about. That train done gone, when it comes to courage.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[bitchprince]

"Everything is set for tonight," Arthur informed her. Some time in.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[thatsamilkshake]

"I've got the cake made." Francine sucked utterly at not grinning like a cat with a bellyful of canary about that. "I'm picking up the stuff from Taste of Thai after church."

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[bitchprince]

"Good," Arthur mused. "I've gotten some people in to do a few things around the sixth floor."

'A few things'. Yeeeah.

Re: Listen to the sermon!

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie had certainly asked for forgiveness often enough, so she listened quietly and attentively.

Until the squirrel bit. Then she was left mildly wondering if this was a drunken sermon.

Talk to Castiel

[scruffnfeathers]

There's a note at the bottom of his last card pointing out that he should possibly seek squirrels forgiveness for drinking all the rum on the radio, last week.

Re: Talk to Castiel

[irulan-atreides.livejournal.com]

Irulan smiled, "Hello, Castiel."

Re: Talk to Castiel

[scruffnfeathers]

"Irulan. How are you?"

Re: Talk to Castiel

[irulan-atreides.livejournal.com]

"Very well. Have you adjusted better in Fandom?" Irulan asked.

Re: Talk to Castiel

[living_endless]

It had been a while, so Didi wandered over after the sermon, hands loosely in her pockets. "It's funny," she greeted. "It's way easier for me to forgive other people than it is for me to realize I might need to be forgiven, too."

Re: Talk to Castiel

[scruffnfeathers]

"You feel you don't transgress, then?"

Re: Talk to Castiel

[living_endless]

"I tend not to think of myself as transgressing, yeah," Didi admitted. "Which is just silly, isn't it?"

Re: Talk to Castiel

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"What's with the squirrel stuff?" Well he couldn't not ask about. Chuck thought that after a year he and the squirrels had become quite good friends.

Re: Talk to Castiel

[scruffnfeathers]

"Someone," Castiel said, "has altered my notes." He held up the note cards, where the scratched out words replaced with "squirrels" would be visible to Chuck.

Re: Talk to Castiel

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck laughed. "That's pretty funny. Did you piss them off somehow?"

OOC

[scruffnfeathers]

This post brought to you by Squirrel Appreciation Day.

And possibly MadLibs.

Re: OOC

[weetuskenraider]

I love you thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much.

Re: OOC

[thatsamilkshake]

Despite having read that correctly once already, just now I read it as

This post brought to you by Squirrel Appreciation Day.

And possibly Muad'Dib.

Re: OOC

[scruffnfeathers]

So, brought to you by adapted kangaroo mice?

Yeah, I totally just had to google that to get your reference.

Re: OOC

[thatsamilkshake]

Yes!

Also brought to you by Irulan's presence and disturbingly associative reading patterns, I suspect.