Comments on: Just Because It’s Lent

By: Stephie

Stephie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:39:13 +0000

I loved discovering this song tucked in at the end of your album a couple years ago. I’m Catholic and this song makes me laugh that spontaneous out loud *real* laugh again, and again — and, at the same time is so touching I almost always tear up at some point. The tuna casserole, face smeared with ashes, so glad I’m unitarian… etc. area all so familiar, and therefore so funny. The brother reenacting the stations has always been my favorite image, especially the “when he falls the second time” part… and I always thought it was funny because it was sooo over the top. Well, I have to tell you, we just did a family stations of the cross hike at my church this past weekend. We tried to make it all really accessible to the kids, lots of hands-on stuff, like warm cloths to wipe faces like Veronica at station 6, stuff like that… well, low and behold, my nearly four year old was soon “reenacting” the stations and fell a few times more than the requisite three. So, I dug up your song on my iTunes again this week and laughed/cried as I listened to it 1,2, 3, times in a row … then sent this blog to the group of folks who were on the hike with us. Thanks for adding some humor to this often too sombre season!

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By: anna bjork

anna bjork — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:12:05 +0000

aww….Mom tried so hard to be creative!!!!! As a Catholic mom…….I’m trying…..(not to be Catholic???!!!!)

By: Erin Friedman

Erin Friedman — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:36:24 +0000

Brilliant songwriting and performance — what a treat.

By: sandy scherer

sandy scherer — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:28:18 +0000

A friend of mine just shared this on Facebook. I laughed so hard I had to play it twice to listen to all the words the second time. And then I shared it on FB. (I would have been laughing right alongside that woman in your audience had I been there.) I’m sixth of seven, raised in a Catholic family. This was my life. Did you also have a May altar for the Virgin Mary? I have to agree with Tammy on the opening up to the Goddess via Mary — being raised Catholic results in a lot of baggage, but there is a lot to be said for the good it inspires. Love your music, your emails, your blog.

By: Chris Owen

Chris Owen — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:26:05 +0000

Friday Dinner is so familiar!!!
Not the Stations of the Cross re-enactment!!
Much chortling here in Australia!

By: Barry Pike

Barry Pike — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:42:08 +0000

What a wonderful song! And I like your commentary about it. Your website is really a refreshing place. I always feel better and smarter when after visiting.

By: Moomin Light

Moomin Light — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:11:57 +0000

A Lenten Song…

Mary Catherine’s Ash Wednesday Journal by Christine Kane – it’s great! Click here to go to Christine Kane’s website where you can listen to her song. And, be sure to read the post – it’s funny too! If you’re Catholic,…

By: ChickiePam

ChickiePam — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:10:10 +0000

Hi Christine,
I’ve always loved this song. Being raised a Southern Baptist, I have absolutely no idea what the stations of the cross are, so the next time you see me, please enlighten me! And if that is general information that even a Baptist SHOULD know, then, oh well! I am very grateful that I never had to go through the tuna cassarole thing! I never minded tuna salad, but the cassarole thing was never my idea of food.

Pam

By: Christine Kane

Christine Kane — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:03:57 +0000

Hey Kelsey! Of COURSE I don’t hold the Catholic thing against you! More power to you for being one of the cool ones. (The Jesuits are the cool ones too!) Thanks for the note and the funny story!

Okay fivecats, I get it now. I’m a little slow sometimes! (and shivermetimbers makes me think of Tom Waits. I can only hear him singing “…and shiver me timbers, I’m a sailing away!”) Oh good, more funny books about food!

Thanks Tammy. I used to listen to every Joseph Campbell interview I could get my hands on. He was the first voice of deep spiritual connection I ever found. I am still grateful for that.

Susie, I wasn’t aware there was a website. The book is worth getting though. It’s just so funny. I had this very antiquated “Betty Crocker’s Childrens Cookbook” when I was little. And my brother and I would laugh at this canned pear salad, where you make the canned pears look like bunny rabbits (it involves cottage cheese and raisins, or something like that.) And we always threatened to show up at each other’s weddings with that and set it on the buffet table…. so he was my obvious choice for the Gallery of Regrettable Food as a gift.