Virgin Mother's Day

   
   "Virgin Mother's Day"
   
   She said:  "Do as My Son says."  Yet we do not.  Thus, the rejected stone becomes the cornerstone, as it was with Joseph and David.  The Rabbis of His time did not understand, for like Faulkner and Pynchon, Jesus spoke in code--so that only the chosen would understand, and they call these parables, while modern man spins the cotton candy Jesus, forgetting Him whipping them like Indiana Jones, and kicking over their false gods--money.  My Jesus is no wimp, but the bravest of the brave, and how do you inherit Valhalla if you're a Viking?--by bravery.
   Rasputin, the Mad Monk, saw the Virgin Mary, as the story goes.  God's Work is a mystery, sometimes using dark forces for gain, as it was with Job, just to prove that the LIGHT is smarter and stronger.  They poisoned Rasputin, shot him in the head, and threw him in frozen water, yet he would not die.  Jesus was rejected, and this is why we say in the Litany of Saint Joseph:  "Solace of the wretched."
   Regardless, as Reagan gave us soft disclosure years ago, Carter unable to persuade Bush (then Head of the CIA) after the peanut farmer's sighting of a craft, we should thank Reagan for giving George a few cocktails, and that sounds like a dirty word.
   My point--Jesus' Words:  "You shall drink poison and not die; furthermore, you shall pick up reptiles."
   As in The Brothers Karamazov, we have the Orthodox Monk Alyosha dealing with 3 brothers:  A sensualist, an intellectual, and a cunning bastard child--he perseveres through faith and mystical encounters of the Virgin Mary and Jesus at the Wedding.  Russia needs to come home to Mother Church, for Adamkind needs all the help it can get.
   But Americans are crazier than the Irish.  If we'd forget worship of status and the dollar, we'd be invulnerable.  
   And as it is the 100 year Anniversary of Fatima, I tell my true Mother, the Virgin:  "Happy Mother's Day."  She can be your mother too.  All you have to do is HONOR Her.