Red Nose Day? No Thanks!If you are from the US, the Red Nose Day website will give you an idea of what people who have televisions must put up with ad nauseam tomorrow.
Instead of supporting some morally very dubious causes by giving your money to Red Nose Day on Friday, why not celebrate a RED BOX DAY instead? The Red Box is the recognised means of raising money for The APF, the Association or the Propagation of the Faith. It is the Pope's own missionary organisation which supports those who have the task of spreading knowledge of the Faith in so many difficult circumstances throughout the world. If you haven't got a red box, you can put some extra money in the APF box by the Sacristy Door, and sign up for a box on the list at the back of Church.'
I wish I had known about the "Red Box Day" alternative earlier - I would have promoted the same in my parish. However, it is not quite too late. Tomorrow, instead of observing Red Nose Day, put a little extra into your APF Red Box. Just so we don't lose out on the funny pictures, here's my effort:
8 comments:
I don't get it. What's red nose day?
I looked at the website and still don't know.
(Don't have a TV)
That picture is hysterical! It made my day!
I'm intrigued - what are the "morally very dubious causes" that are spoken of?
I LOVE the picture! LOL
What are the "morally very dubious" RND causes? I dropped a pound in a RND bucket before and I did think afterwards hmm hope that's not going to anything, well, morally dubious.
The official website is packed full of stuff but it's pretty useless for trying to actually find out what our donations are used for.
I seem to recall some discussion in the UK Catholic press a couple of years back because a headmaster in the Midlands banned RND at his school and sought to get the Church to discourage support - because some of the money went to support abortion.
Needless to say, non-Catholic CAFOD and the bishops' views was that because the majority of money went to other, morally acceptable causes, RND should be supported.
I may not have the facts 100% right, but that was the gist of it. My support was and is with the Headmaster.
Hilary - it's a day when comedians do silly things to raise money for charity and people are invited to send in money and get their names on the telly. The BBC runs it all day, I think.
Others - I've done a post with some more stuff about the "morally dubious" thing.
LOL!
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