Mom came over for Christmas Eve diner this afternoon. The nuns are big on Christmas cheer. Go figure. Mom said they have numerous manger scenes up around the convent. However, this was not without controversy. Again, go figure. Apparently, the nuns aren't keen on the idea of the baby Jesus being placed in a manger scene until December 25th. Doing so would imply that his birthday was sometime prior to the 25th. Some of the convent’s older nativity scenes come with a non-removable Christ-child. The sisters, obviously, had a problem. They did not want wait until the 25th to put the manger scenes up, and they had ruled out the partial birth abortion option (i.e. hack-sawing baby JChrist out of the scene, and replacing him on his birthday). What is a Sister to do? Easy. Taking inspiration, not from the Lord above, but from high-school jocks pulling Halloween pranks, the sisters found the answers to their prayers; toilet paper.
Mom said, “I came into work and was like what the hell is going on in here? About half of the nativity scenes have be vandalized, and baby Jesus as been toilet-papered!”
Sister Ingenuity explained the situation. “Christ wasn’t born until the 25th, so we had to hide all the baby Jesuses with toilet paper until his birthday.”
Mom asked, “Uhm…your hiding the son of God with toilet paper? Wouldn’t a paper towel be more…respectful?”
Sister Ingenuity responded, “No, toilet paper is just fine.”
Mom asked when the Jesuses were going to be unveiled.
Sister Ingenuity responded, “After 8pm mass, which is at 12am.”
“Right,” mom said, and went back to her desk.
2 comments:
Well considering other things they could have grabbed fm the bathroom, I think that baby J made out just fine, it could have gotten messy!
It gets better. During a follow-up conversation with one of the "TP-ers", mom was told that toilet paper was the closest thing they could find to "swadling clothes."
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