Brief note to Bp. Hying: you have work to do.
A Madison (W)-area Catholic grade school put on a 'Christmas play' last week. The program was modeled after the Hispanic story-line (or so we're told), wherein Mary and Joseph went from door to door knocking to gain entry and were rebuffed by various evil spirits representing the sins of man, until they finally went to the stable.
That's a narrative which deserves thought; the allegory is valid.
But that wasn't all.
It included a girl who played the part of St. Joseph.
That's NOT a Hispanic tradition.
The girl was supposedly 'an understudy' for the part, according to the pastor of the parish.
Maybe the school only has one boy attending?
2 comments:
1) Was the main player a boy, and couldn't make that performance?
2) Even in my day, it was a challenge to get upper-grade boys involved in such things. So I wonder if they couldn't find anyone else. If that's the case, then I wouldn't worry too terribly about the matter.
The pastor said that 'the part is played by an understudy.'
There is more than ONE boy in the 7th/8th grades and--as you know--re-writing a part to non-speaking is very easy. This ain't Shakespeare-level playwright stuff.
We've witnessed a LOT of grade-school Christmas pageants. Never saw one where a girl played a boy's part, even in a school where there were very few students altogether.
Somebody gave up far too easily.
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