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New Year's Fantasies (Not Resolutions)

© Kathryn Morse

I'm not making resolutions this year. But I do engage in inventing daydreams. Daydreaming makes chores like washing dishes less seem less tedious.

Most of my daydreams would require winning one of those $10,000,000 sweepstakes to come true. But that's O.K. To the best of my knowledge daydreams need not be limited by finances.

Here's my list. What's yours?

(1) To move to a bigger house so that I can have my own bathroom and office.

(2) This house must be located next door to a church with weekday mass either at 7:00 in the morning or 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. I've always wanted to be able to go to daily mass.

(3) Since I'd be right next door to the church, I'd like to teach a weekly CCD class and help with other activities. Living near a parish building is not a requirement for doing these kinds of things, but I have always appreciated the convenience of being near my church building. You can pop over and work on a bulletin board while you've got something on the stove.

(4) I'd like to adopt a poor parish in Central America or the Carribean. I get tired of seeing people in the USA who won't wear perfectly good clothes because they are a little outdated, etc. I'd like to be able to take these kinds of things and church and medical supplies to a community that would use them. I'd like to be able to take a week off to travel to my adopted parish about once every two months. And not just to give them things, but to participate in Mass with fellow Catholics.

(5) In the summer, when there is no CCD, I'd like to travel even more. I'd make a list of shrines and interesting churches I'd like to visit, get a really nice RV and take off. (Have you seen Travel Catholic. I'm doing Travel Catholic II in May 1999.)

(6) In 1999, I'd like to buy a rosary that I'm not embarrassed to be seen with in public. (At this time the most expensive rosary in my household cost $2.00.)

(7) And I'd like to get one of those exhaustive books of the Saints for reference.

(8) And I'd replenish my supply of Blessed Candles and Holy Water. I'm completely out of Holy Water at my home. I won't ask just any priest to bless some water for me. Some seem to not take this kind of thing seriously and I'm embarrassed to ask them.

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