My Awakening to Catholicism II

I had lost all desire to become a Catholic but I continued my involvement with the church my wife was still Parish Secretary so The priest was always at our home .Every time I saw him at home he had just come from this other couples home just down the road, The wife according to this priest was unhappy her husband did not like her new hair do,her husband did not give her enough money to run the house, she was sick of bending over backwards to please him and so it went for 7 or 8 weeks he would come for tea and let it be known he did not like the husband(this is not my Judgmental mate but the priest after him his constant picking on this bloke used to really annoy the crap out of my wife and I, more often than not I would just walk out of the room.

I came home from work one day to find my wife absolutely exhausted as 3of our 4 kids were crook and she had been running around looking after them all day , I had not had a good day at work and was quite buggared myself. My wife said to me 'David (the Priest) would like you or I at the school AGM tonight ,reluctantly I said I would go. When I got there I was surprised to find the room absolutely full An AGM with at least80 people there I thought WOW what a turn up. I was a bit late so I admissed the start of the meeting as I looked around I got this terrible sense of foreboding on the stage was the bloke I was telling you about the one the priest was always whinging about who was the Parish accountant the meeting was being chaired by a bathroom specialist in cahoots with the priest. I sat there for twenty minutes as  book keeping was criticized in front of every body then they got stuck on whether 5 grand had been entered in the right column or not after 20 mins I was getting pretty Pd off . I thought this is bullshit some body has to stop it ,then I thought I am not a mick somebody will stop it shortly. But at that point in time I did not fully understand why micks have to be well behaved in front of their priest.

40 mins has gone by and it is pretty obvious that the meeting is heading towards a no confidence motion in the accountant all of a sudden, with a roomful of very bored people ,I get hit over the head with a large dose of reality I am there as a yes man this Piss poor excuse for a man(priest) has me there as a yes man to watch him to help him get rid of a parishioner because of his personal hatreds Gotta tell you I was bloody angry I was absolutely livid .

So I stood up and so as every one knew I was talking to the priest Said are we arguing about 5k that is missing or 5k entered in the wrong column . I was assured there was no money missing,I said ' well I came to an AGM I did not come to listen to the crap that has gone on in this room tonight and then I moved a motion to bring the meeting to an end but did it in such a way that it could be taken up at a later date with proper meeting procedures in place. The motion was carried unanimously and so ended one of the most disgraceful shows of parish manipulations I had ever witnessed little did I know At the time of this meeting this low life specimen of a priest was already kiddy fiddling with our children and had already started grooming my son But there was worse to come for this parish.

Cheers Ian Lawther.