I will honor your attempt to be less confrontational.
I remember the dog in the church.
The doors were left open at times, such as during manualia, and on especially hot days. Wasps would fly in unannounced, as would other critters. The dog was no different.
When I saw the dog in the church, it occurred to me that God gives a sixth sense to some creatures. This dog could have gone anywhere on the grounds to seek solace. It went to the chapel, the best place at the seminary.
The dog knew where to go for peace; the house of God, in the presence of His Son, Our Lord, in the tabernacle. The dog reminded me of Mary Magdalene at the feet of Our Lord, or of the publican in the temple, as it lay peacefully near the doors of the chapel.
“Lord have mercy on me, a sinner.”
Okay, now that I've had some time to really take this in, here are a few serious observations.
- This dog was not a service dog and it had no place inside the chapel. Insects on a hot day I could understand, but a dog must be leashed or confined to another area if there was ever a chance of having it walk in on its own. Its presence was a desecration. That it belonged to Pablo the Desecrator is no surprise.
- That the dog might have preferred hanging out in or near the chapel instead of say, his owner, could be interpreted as an unsettling sign.
- That you carefully avoided answering this question in the affirmative until you framed it with "saint" Guinefort levels of animal sanctity implies that you are aware of how bad it looks to have a dog run around the same place as Holy Mass.
- That this dog would remind you of a saint at all is somewhat disturbing to be if not outright absurd. For the first time I'm actually concerned for your mental state, Martin.
I will continue to pray for you, but please do yourself a big favor and let the whole Boston topic go unless you are truly prepared to do what must be done to speak out against it. We need to expose every single scrap of darkness in that place. I have reason to believe you have been holding back and I'm asking you to drop the defenses and to find the strength to put it all out there. Until then, God Bless. I really mean it, man!