We finally got polled!
theophilus October 14th, 2008
I have waited forever to get a call from one of those polls that, this time of year, ends up substituting for news and actual reporting on candidate positions. I’ve always wondered who exactly these polls polled, because I sure as heck never got a call from one.
Until today.
Of course, I wasn’t home. My wife and kids were – and my 1st grader answered the phone. It was an automatic, voice-activated process so my daughter proceeded to answer the questions. Being well-schooled in her parents’ political beliefs (including the reasons for these beliefs), she supposedly answered the questions the way we would have (my wife was across the room listening in on her end of the conversation).
But remember this little ancedote the next time you hear about the polls in the news.
On a more serious note, today is the feast day for St. Callistus I, a third-century pope and martyr. The Office of Readings (part of the Liturgy of the Hours) for today has a reflective passage from Saint Cyprian. While not directly talking about St. Callistus, it does have two great lines in it.
The first is “[w]e offer to the Lord a most acceptable gift, our incorrupt faith, the unshaken courage of our spirit and the glorious pride of our dedication.”
The other is “[t]he spirit of a strong and stable character strengthened by meditation endures; this unshaken spirit, which is strengthened by a certain and solid faith in the future will be enlivened against all the terrors of the devil and threats of this world.”
Just some food for thought of what is expected of us.
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I was polled once a few years it was all about seat belt laws nonsense.