Friday, March 16, 2007

…a brown what-ular?

So I'm going to press check a catalog at the printer (I'm a graphic artist by trade), and I get to thinking. - Last summer I took the family to the community pool. While we were there I saw a man wearing a Blue Scapular (quite a sight really considering I live in a community that is probably less than 1% Catholic.) Now what made this scapular so unique was it's size and quality. After having seen it I found myself frequently breaking the 10th commandment (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods). Anyway, since then I had been thinking of getting a nice Scapular. The problem is , the closest Catholic store to where I live is pretty far away. (apparently there isn't a large demand for high quality or really, any Catholic products in Utah.) -

Back to the point, so the printer I'm going to is fairly close to that Catholic store. After the press check I decide to head over there, hopefully to find the Scapular of my dreams. Now I don't know about you but I have a love/hate relationship with Catholic stores. I love to go, but hate the fact that I don't have unlimited funds to purchase the entire store. After looking at everything except for the stocked items in the back and the glow in the dark Our Lady of Guadalupe statues, I finally find the section I'm looking for. There they hang, large Scapulars with Angles and Saints calling out to me, yearning to be purchased and put to good use, but now the worst part. Which one? They're all cool and I could see myself wearing any of them. So I pick up St. Michael the Archangel. Being a family man, I like that St. Michael helps us in battle against all that corrupts. But then out of nowhere something catches my eye. It's a Brown Scapular with the image of a Priest on it. Upon further inspection I see that the Priest is ST. MAXIMILLIAN KOLBE. (please read this link if you don't know who this remarkable Saint is.) So here is where it gets interesting. I'm quite the XBOX 360 gamer and I especially enjoy playing Call of Duty (a WW2 first person shooter, based on actual historic events that occurred during that war.) Anyway my gamer tag (name) is Maxx Kolbe. I guess I see myself as exacting revenge for St. Max on all those Nazis. (Sorry Max I know it was against your nature, but I'm not a quarter of the man you were.) Now I'm thinking that's perfect, well except for the fact that St. Max is the patron Saint of substance abuse. Now I have a lot of vices but substance abuse was never one of them. Even so I decide to get the Scapular anyway. I would like to think that if I had been in his position, I would have had the courage to do the same (his greatest gift, to give my life for another.) As I get back to work, I open up my new pride and joy, like a child on his birthday, and pull out all of the documentation that comes with an item such as this and I begin to read… "In addition, St. Maximilian is also the patron Saint of printers, and graphic artists"
Graphic Artists? That's just plain crazy. Now I swear on my Baptism that I didn't know that when I purchased it.
Anyway, I really don't know if that would be considered a small miracle, but I do see it as St. Max approving of a little revenge on those Nazis. This next games for you!

1 comment:

Entropy said...

Great post and I learned something too! Looks like you were meant to have St. Kolbe as your patron saint!