- Someone notices that John Bruce mentions that the calendar hasn't been updated
- Either that person is Mrs Bush herself, or that person tells Mrs Bush about it
- The issue seems to be that there's some feast that's important to Catholics, but should also be important to Anglo-Catholics (whatever it is), and if John Bruce mentioned it, maybe they should look into it
- Mrs Bush gets on the horn to whomever updates the parish calendar, something about a conception or something needs to be on the calendar for December 8 because it's supposed to be important, and we don't have it
- Person Who Updates The Calendar (PWUTC) listens, decides Mrs Bush is ticked again, figures something needs to be done about December 8
- PWUTC's performance has been a disappointment up to now, job or volunteer position might be on the line, but PWUTC makes best effort, googles something like "Catholic December 8"
- Discovers something like "Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary" -- probably never heard of it
- Decides a good short version would be Conception of the Blessed, enters it into calendar app
- Mrs Bush happy
- PWUTC heaves sigh of relief.
"On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. . . . It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews." -- Annie Dillard
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Here's How I Think The Calendar Got Updated
I can imagine a series of events roughly like the following;