LUCI YOU GOTZ SOME SPLAINING TO DO!

We finished all the episodes of "Downton Abbey" and "Brotherhood" on our Amazon Prime membership so we were looking around for something to watch that wouldn't cost us any money. There are a lot of great shows to watch but they are about 2 to 3 dollar a pop.

So we decided to watch the original "I Love Lucy" shows from the very begining. They are the perfect late night before you go to sleep fare. The wife won't let me watch "Justified" or "Game of Thrones" right before we go to sleep so it is a Housewife show or a sitcom. Lucy is funny and low key and not so loud so you can go to sleep right afterward with a smile on your face.

Good stuff.

Did you ever think about Judas

Did you ever think about Judas?

He was Jesus friend. One of his followers. Someone he trusted and wanted to spread the Good News. But Judas didn't really love Jesus. Well at least not enough. He just sold him out. For money.

I mean he repented later. He was sorry he did it and tried to give it back. But you can't give it back when you take those thirty pieces of silver. Once you do it you can't undo it.

On the corner of my block there is a statue of St Lucy with her eyeballs on a plate. St. Lucy wouldn't marry a pagan and give up her devotion to Jesus. She took her dowry and gave it to the poor and starving. Her bridegroom was outraged and denounced her as a Christian. When they couldn't move her or burn her they gouged out her eyeballs with a fork. That is why she is traditionally depicted as holding a plate with her eyeballs on it.

You will find a statue of St Lucy in most real old style Churches. She is one of the most popular and venerated saints. You know you are in a real old school Catholic church when you see St Lucy with her eyeballs on a plate.

St Lucy wasn't like Judas. She didn't take the life of ease and comfort. I mean all she had to do was deny her faith. Maybe not even that. She would just have to hide it. Hide the symbols and practices and not give witness. Then she would have all the riches of the world. She just had to pretend.

St Lucy was no Judas.

I am no St Lucy.

But I am giving up my rage for Lent.

St Lucy Pray for Us.

This is a photo of the shrine to Saint Lucy the patron saint of eyes and eye problems. This shrine is in the front of a brownstone and is dedicated for the intention of one of the owners realtives.

I have one rule for when I visit a Catholic church. I always look for the statues. If they have St Lucy with her eyeballs on a plate then it is a "real" church. Otherwise it is too Protestant for me.

By the way this photo was taken by Glenn Kenny a sometimes contributor to Althouse who is a great film critic and whose blog "Some Came Running" is being added to my blog role.

I always see him sitting at the bar which is right next door to the shrine. A shrine of a different sort so to speak.