One of our favs, Dr. J, writes in with some holiday wishes:

Dear Gormogon’s,

Dr. J. wishes all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year.

Best,
Dr. J.

We wish the Royal Surgeon and his extended family all the best of the Christmas season and a safe and prosperous New Year.

Now that that’s out of the way, Dr. J., in the true spirit of Catholic Charity and Love has an Open Letter to the C.A.P.E. Catholics*:

Dear C.A.P.E. Catholics*,

The Catholic Church welcomes you into its warm embrace this Christmas Season.

Dr. J., who always arrives at Mass about 10 minutes before it begins is appreciative that he had the privilege of standing in the back and holding his 4 year old son the entire service because it allowed him the opportunity to warmly welcome the alien into his midst for the Christmas Service.

Dr. J. would like to suggest to his C.A.P.E. Catholic brethren to come back for a visit during ANY of the 33 weeks or Ordinary Time. There is ample seating for all and the priest wears some snazzy green duds. During the 6 weeks of Lent and for 3 weeks of Advent the priest will be wearing some pimptastic purple robes. The Rose colored robes from 2 weeks ago, fantabulous! (GorT note: the rose color robes during Advent are optional, our parish opted not to use them…but they are seen during Lent frequently – almost more so than the purple ones.  Don’t forget we sometimes get red robes too).

In addition if you come during a different week of the year, you might even get to hear some different readings than the ones you hear every year at Christmas.

Warmest Regards,

Dr. J.
Royal Surgeon to the Gormogons

* C.A.P.E. Catholics are the ones that attend mass on Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and/or Easter

 Dr. J is right on the mark – while we enjoying seeing you at these festive Holy Days, it would be equally as pleasing to see you across the pews throughout the year.  Maybe join us on the 3rd of February when many parishes bless your throats on St. Blaise’s feast day (or the Sunday nearest) with crossed candles (one of GorT’s and his family’s favorites).  The variety of music is an additional pull unless it gets dragged down by the choirmasters that ‘Puter refers to occasionally here.  The Volgi goes nuts on the 7th of June on St. Gottleschalk’s feast day.

Seriously, though: a little prayer goes a long way.  It has touched our extended family this past year and I hope and pray that God touches all of your lives, dear readers.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.