Too Many Proposals

Monday-10 minutes Catholic Q&A

Tuesday-15 minutes Catholic Q&A

Wednesday-20 minutes Catholic Q&A

Thursday-20 minutes Anne of the Island

Friday-20 minutes Anne of the Island

Saturday-none

Sunday- 20 minutes Anne of the Island

This week I got a chance to sit down and spend some more time with my Catholic Q&A book.  I read a couple of chapters and the issues addressed in those chapters again brought to my mind what a difference there is between the way Catholics are taught and the way they think, and the way protestants are taught and the way they think.  A lot of the issues that were brought up centered around parables (stories) in the Bible and how they are interpreted.  Protestants tend to interpret the parables or stories in the Bible literally.  For instance, the story of Noah is thought of as something that literally happened.  Catholics however don’t take this specific view.  They look more towards the lesson that is being taught, and not necessarily the historic facts as the Bible was not written to be a history text book.  The book discussed other stories such as Jonah and the Whale and some of the miracles of Jesus as well. 

Anne had just gotten home to Green Gables and it started to snow.  She and her friends rejoiced as they were worried that they would have a “Green” Christmas.  Over the new year there was quite a snow storm and Anne’s friend Jane Andrews stayed the night.  Before Anne and Jane fell asleep Jane had a question to ask Anne.  She asked Anne if she was interested in marrying her brother Billy.  Anne was speechless and dumbfounded.  She could not believe that her first proposal was coming from her friend for her brother!  She had had such a perfect set up in her mind of how her first proposal would be.  It would be romantic, and passionate, and most certainly by a tall handsome man.  She finally found her words and told her friend that she did not care for her brother and could not marry him.  After this blow to her ego Anne went back to school after the break.  Soon after spring classes got into swing a frequent caller at their boarding house, an Avonlea friend also decided that he had a question to ask Anne.  She did not love Charlie Sloane either and turned him down.  After this episode Anne was bitterly disappointed at the way her first two proposals had gone.  She had only ever wanted one!