You wouldn't believe it. Everyone was talking about it, afterwards. Fr. George linked religious lessons from the Wizard of Oz, to Christianity. The subject was how we're really dead until our baptism. With baptism, we start the promise of a new life.
It's like we're on the farm and facing bankruptcy. Then Dorothy meets three companions who help her along the way:
The lion, in search of courage. Yet it is he who braves the dangers ahead.
The scarecrow, in search of a brain. But he's the one who plans.
The tin man, in search of a heart. Note his love and compassion for his companions.
Do they remind you of how God doesn't choose the qualified? He qualifies the chosen.
The climax is when they baptize the evil witch. They threw water on her! Bam! Evil is washed away.
And they continue on the yellow brick road.
As St. Catherine of Siena would say, "All the way to heaven, is heaven."
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