"Say the Black, Do the Red"

I forget, sometimes, how insular I, how insular my interests can be.

Himself was admiring our deacon's ars celebrandi, and was informed that it was hard come by, that in seminary the liturgical training had pretty much consisted of being told to say the black and do the red.


Himself thought that was one of the wittiest, most original aphorisms he'd ever heard.