On Saturday evening, my parental units and I ate dinner together with Ben and Myrna, who usually attend the afternoon mass at 05:00PM. ‘Maw’ and Myrna decided to chat together while ‘Paw’ and I sat in the pew next to them, waiting for the twosome to finish their conversation. Our local church was already cleared of people upon the lights turning off and being locked up for the night by Ben when we saw the smiling priest come and greet us.
Father Vu will be missed. And later on during the course of our dinner, which was mixed vegetable on top of chow fun drowning in sauce, one whole sole fish, deep fried pork and house fried rice, we learned from Ben why Father Vu sounded so very sad on the 05:00PM mass on Saturday, March 29, 2008. When I heard the priest sing the ‘In Praise of God’ section at the time, his voice was very low and melancholy.
According to Ben, Father Perata gave Father Vu a recommendation similar to Ben’s gesture of a thumb pointing downward. This meant Father Vu would be transferred out of St. Victor’s Church in San Jose, CA and to another Catholic church locate in Campbell, CA, which is a very old town and mostly white. Father Vu is Vietnamese by the way. I mumbled under my breath full of chow mein: ‘I didn’t know that the white priest is prejudice’.
I believe politics played a role in this religious organization and blatant discrimination between the whites and Asians has reared it ugly head in our own church. I heard something about the same white priest mentioning to some person(s) about that Asian priest eating from a rice bowl and how that white priest would ‘summon’ another with his right index finger as if the other person was a dog. (The old timers prior to Dr. King’s efforts know what this fingering gesture signifies, I’m sure).
As mentioned somewhere in my previous blog, Father Perata seems ‘alien’ to me. He would rub his ear and head at times as if tuning in to what I had to ‘say’ while I blasted him during my prayerful moments. One time I slightly startled him as if he recognized me: He winked at me knowingly with his left eye as he handed me the Eucharist one time.
During the ‘Preparation of the Eucharist’, one disturbing action I sometimes notice is his single jerking motion of the empty cup (prior to the pouring of the wine or water) to remove that napkin thing covering the top of the cup. I would assume he knows something about that ritual with blood drinking for the reptoids from ‘fruit of the vine and work of human hands’ deal.
I will mention also that he does have barely visible ‘horns’ located on either side of his forehead and just above his eyebrows. I am assuming but noticed on cable programming these features on government officials, television personalities and celebrities alike. (‘Maw’ and I noticed the same ‘horn’s popping out from some of the panels during the Thursday, April 3, 2008 Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill).
Some of us are planning to take Father Vu out for dinner but somehow that would be much later and probably after he is transferred out to his new church. I heard the Vicar called out to me ‘Lyn’ twice while I waited in the lobby for my parental units and a couple, Fred and Rose. I turned around to see him smiling in his white garment.
I had already visualized this happening earlier this morning as he opened out both his arms to greet me and another moment of time has passed between two souls. To me this symbolizes how some nicer people are booted out for their own good and probably sent far away because some ‘aliens’ cannot stand the energy from good hearted folks, like Father Vu.
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