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A monologue from the play by Christopher Durang
Father Donnally
Young marrieds have many problems to get used to. For some of them this is the first person of the opposite sex the other has ever known.
The husband may not be used to having a woman in his bathroom. The wife may not be used to a strong masculine odor in her boudoir.
Or then the wife may not cook well enough. How many marriages have floundered on the rocks of ill-cooked bacon?
I used to amuse my friends by imitating bacon on a saucepan. Would anyone like to see that? I also do coffee percolating. Pt. Pt. Ptptptptptptptptpt. Bacon’s better.
But things like coffee and bacon are important in a marriage, because they represent things that the wife does to make her husband happy. Or fat.
The wife cooks the bacon, and the husband brings home the bacon. This is how St. Paul saw marriage, although they probably didn’t really eat pork back then,
the curing process was not very well worked out in Christ’s time, which is why so many of them followed the Jewish dietary laws even though they were Christians.
I know I’m glad to be living now when we have cured pork and plumbing and showers rather than back when Christ lived.
Many priests say they wish they had lived in Christ’s time so they could have met Him; that would, of course, have been very nice, but I’m glad I live now and that I have a shower.
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