Conclave? Conclave! Am I right?
Today was all conclave, all the time in school. The kids watched the Procession of the Cardinals in their pajamas (the kids were in their pajamas. Not the Cardinals.), then they got ready to have a Conclave of their own.
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| Sistine Chapel, ghetto-style |
A Sistine Chapel was constructed, sheets of newspaper scribbled red and hastily made into birettas, and voting cards with "Eligo in Summum Pontificum" printed up.
The cardinals lined up on either side of the schoolroom-turned-chapel, maintained heroic levels of silence, and cast their votes.
The silence! Man, if I could have fixed the voting somehow to stretch the conclave out longer, just for the silence.
But it wasn't to be. While the world outside caught this predictable view:
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| chimney belching black smoke, obvi |
Donaldson Conclave reached 2/3rds majority with the first vote. Not surprisingly, the new Pope was none other than Cardinal Jude, who took the papal name of Pope Awesome I. He greeted the crowd for the Urbi et Orbi with a subdued manner:
Meanwhile, my yard is no longer snow covered, but it is a giant mud pit, so finding something green for this week's Theme Thursday is going to be a challenge.
Later, Pope Awesome is trying to sneak out of the house to slide down our backyard mudslide. In his underwear.
LOVE THIS!!! What a GREAT idea! Love. Love. Love!
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome - I think Pope Awesome knows more about papal conclaves than I will ever learn! And I'm a little jealous about it :)
ReplyDeleteAleteia is being a bugger with comments. John XXIII for me, please.
ReplyDeleteGoing to do this stuff right dang now.
I never cringe when I see your titles but I am easily amused.
ReplyDeleteOur homeschooling day consisted of watching someone calibrate our tv and watching the smoke. Science, history, religion. I am pretty sure I could throw a few more subjects in there. Your day seems a bit more productive. Maybe tomorrow I should do the whole "make a lesson" out of all that...
Sticking with John XXIII even though I hate to choose.
You are amazing. This is the kind of homeschool I always imagined we would have, but it never quite happened. So glad Jude won, have no doubt of the holiness of his future. I always console myself with the fact that the majority of saints' biographies I have read, they were really rascally young folks, giving those around them a real run.
ReplyDeleteI know I keep going on about him, but my Jude wanted to be a priest when he was your Jude's age. Why? He saw this painting by Michael O'Brien: http://www.studiobrien.com/component/option,com_phocagallery/Itemid,72/buttons,1/catid,3/detail,1/id,125/tmpl,component/view,detail/
Of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, and decided he would absolutely love to be a martyr. He painted his own version over and over. Where has my baby gone???
You forgot the part where you read about yourselves in the Wall Street journal! You go girl! Catholic mom blogger takes on the world!
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