The Diocese of Niagara is renowned worldwide for driving out the faithful by being radically inclusive.

In 2012 the women priests of the diocese performed the Vagina Monologues in the diocesan cathedral, thereby dissipating any vestige of decorum that might still be clinging unwillingly to the ladies of the cloth.

The tradition continues with yearly Pride Masses. This year we had the This is My Body celebration. But it was almost entirely concerned with our bodies, not His body.

Hence the reading was from Sonya Renee Taylor’s The Body is not an Apology, the Power of Radical Self Love. Or, a radical reinterpretation of 2 Timothy 3:2.

Here is a selection from the sermon about Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. The disciples’ reluctance, we are told, was partly because feet are kinky and partly because feet are a euphemism for genitals. I must have led a sheltered life: the only reason I don’t like people touching my feet is because they are ticklish.