My Cat as a Priest

My cat, Hildegard of Bingen, is a Main Coon and basically runs our house.

Hildegard was an abbess who founded 2 convents in the mid-1100's. She was a mystic, visionary, and composer of music.

Her music, made popular by Anonymous Four, is a bit discordant, which is exactly the way our cat "sings."

The original Hildegard (whose saints day is September 17, about when our cat was born), never got to be a priest. So I thought it would be nice to get to see her feline image as a priest!

SS Youth Meet St. Francis

http://revpammulac.typepad.com/rev_pam_mulac/files/improvisational_drama_for_all_saints_day.docHere is an improvisational script I used with our 3rd--8th grade Sunday School class, to learn more about All Saints Day.

We had started the day learning the words and then singing--"I sing a Song of the Saints of God." My purpose was to introduce the youth to the idea that everyone could become a saint (and thus ascribe to this, over their lifetime.)

Then we read through the following script:file://improvisational_drama_for_all_saints_day.doc/

One youth wisely asked: "If you have to be dead to be a saint, how come the song said, 'you can meet them at school, or in lanes, or at sea, etc." Which baffled "St. Francis" and made me think about it. As saints are canonized after their death, but live saintly lives (known to God) while they are alive.

It was a fun skit, and I remember dramas and filmstrips from my youth, much better than lectures!