There are no answers to question, "Why?"

Dear Folks,

When I read the Dec. 29 issue of The Enter­prise, I was shocked to see the front page story was about the statue of Baby Jesus being stolen from the manger scene in front of St. Patrick Catholic Church. What? You have got to be kid­ding me.

My grand­daugh­ter Dana was dev­as­tated by the news. She saw the pic­ture and rec­og­nized Father Rey­mann and the manger scene because her fam­ily placed this Baby Jesus in the manger bed the year before dur­ing Christ­mas Eve Mass.

Dana read the story and said, “Grandma, did you see some­one stole Baby Jesus? The took Him on His birth­day! How could any­one do that, tell me.”

How do I answer a ques­tion like hers? The Christ­mas sea­son and a new year, and we have to face a ques­tion like that instead of talk­ing about lit­tle girl things. I would rather talk about Bar­bie Tan­gled dolls or shiny nail pol­ish, or oooooh and aaaaaah over her play jew­elry; any­thing else would be sufficient.

Well, Dana, some­one thought it would be fun to see if they could steal the baby with­out get­ting caught. They prob­a­bly feel they have some power while they keep it hid­den. Maybe they broke it up to hide it in a garbage can.

I would hope the thief would bring it back the same way he stole it, under the dark of night when no one is watch­ing. That would be more of a chal­lenge than steal­ing it in the first place. Will that really hap­pen, Dana? I do not know. Then again, I never thought Baby Jesus com­ing up miss­ing would hap­pen either. Danie, I wish I could give you a good, hope­ful answer but this is the best I can do for now.

Is there a point to steal­ing reli­gious dec­o­ra­tions from any church or build­ing? I am sure this had noth­ing to do with free­dom of speech or any other Con­sti­tu­tional right of the peo­ple. Accord­ing to Father Rey­mann, this was the fourth inci­dent at the church in 2011. A dis­turbed cul­prit knocked over the Vir­gin Mary statue, stole the St. Fran­cis statue (in front of the slid­ing glass door of the rec­tory), and burned out a win­dow of the old church, and now the theft.

Who­ever this cul­prit is needs to chan­nel all their energy into some­thing more con­struc­tive. They prob­a­bly did not get enough video games for Christ­mas. Let’s face it, they didn’t get any Christ­mas presents because their name was on the very naughty list.

Just my thoughts, Patty

Posted by Kathleen Willbond on Feb 1 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.