{"id":937,"date":"2012-08-26T17:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=937"},"modified":"2012-08-26T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T21:09:01","slug":"our-lady-of-the-stink-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2012\/08\/26\/our-lady-of-the-stink-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of the Stink Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So in her most endearing running ten steps forward and two steps back way, my friend Marianne finally came across the post on my blessed funny women.\u00a0 You remember the one where I begged her to let me publish the now famous Our Lady of the Stink Eye Story that saves my life every once in a while, the one that makes me laugh more than anything else.\u00a0 Following permission granted in her own words:<\/p>\n

Just found this in my email. Thanks a mil \u2013 you are a doll and right back atcha baby. Publish away. I have a league of souls released from Purgatory on my side. \u00a0All Souls Day in grammar school \u2013 three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys, and Three Glory Bes, another soldier working tirelessly to save my soul.<\/p>\n

I knew from a very early age I would need all the help I could get.<\/p>\n

Much love,<\/p>\n

M<\/p>\n

The story of Our Lady is legend.<\/p>\n

It was around 5th<\/sup> grade, I think, after school, about 5 of us were playing around the Our Lady of Fatima\/Lourdes Grotto. (The one with the 3 kids) Anyway, Our Blessed Mother was raised on a Grotto about 8 feet high with a fountain in front and the kneeling kids. Behind her statue was a wall we used to run up and down and jump off. We were playing tag one day and I was chasing someone up the wall when I lost my balance and reached out to Mary to steady myself (and really now, isn\u2019t that what we\u2019ve always been taught to do?) Well Mary must have been tipping a few that day, wasn\u2019t all that steady herself and toppled head first into the fountain breaking her head right off her neck.<\/p>\n

We all stood frozen for about 5 seconds \u2013 just long enough for me to threaten a slow and painful death to a squealer and then we beat feet home like our butts were on fire.<\/p>\n

The whole next week there was a full-blown investigation, threats of excommunication, damnation, you name it. A few times, when\u00a0I would see one of my posse start to sweat or weaken, I\u2019d deliver the \u201cstink eye\u201d and they would keep their mouths shut for another day.\u00a0 To this day, no one ever found out who decapitated Mary.<\/p>\n

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BTW, I made my Communion, Confirmation and was married at that church. \u00a0I\u2019ve always checked to see if the head is still glued on or if they sprung for a new statue. The head is still glued on.<\/p>\n

Also, one of my first lessons in the strength of a powerful female.<\/p>\n

Yours in Christ (and His Mother),<\/p>\n

M<\/p>\n

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