A lot of dioceses celebrate Ascension on the following Sunday. But in many parts of the Catholic community, it is a holy day of obligation. I attended Mass yesterday and the priest made an unusual confession. He told us that when he was a child growing up on the western side of Buffalo, New York, his family would walk across the bridge and spend the day in Canada, where it wasn’t a holy day!
“How do you want me to hit the ball, Coach?”
“Pullet!”