“Well, I was going to ask Grandma Kate, but maybe you know. Did the Blessed Virgin Mother go the
bathroom?” Then she and Veronica giggled
again.
“Of course, she did.
Everybody does.”
Veronica piped up, “My sister says nuns don’t go to the
bathroom. And the Blessed Virgin Mother
is holier than nuns.”
Cilla didn’t agree with that. “But they weren’t always nuns. So they had to do it before they became
nuns.”
Veronica thought about it.
“But the Blessed Virgin mother was holy before she had Jesus. So she would have never had to.”
I had to say something, if only from a parent’s point of
view. “But if a baby or child never went
to the bathroom, her mother would have been very worried and taken her to the
doctor. And when it didn’t make her sick,
it would have been a miracle and would have turned up in the Bible.”
I could see Cilla shaking her head in the mirror. “They might not have put it in the Bible
because it wasn’t nice talk.”
I really don’t think the Gospel writers were that squeamish,
but I didn’t have the energy or the theological training to go there. So I changed the subject. “What about Jesus? Did he go to the bathroom?”
“Oh, sure. He was a boy.”
Even being the Son of God wouldn’t stop boys from going to the
bathroom. They enjoy it too much.
“But what about God?”
Veronica asked.
“Well, God’s a boy.”
Fortunately, we were at meeting.
I could see where this was going, so I was really relieved.
Since I hadn’t become a Christian until I was in college, I
had never wondered about that. But I’m
still on the fence about Jackie Kennedy.
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