BEg2 chapter 10 dipping into the Windust dossier

[Michael Bailey]

[Windust] met, courted, and married—as his nameless biographers put it,
“deployed into a spousal scenario with”—a very young local girl named
Xiomara.
 For a minute Maxine imagines a wedding sequence out in the jungle, with
pyramids, native Mayan rituals, psychedelics. But no, instead it was in the
sacristy at the local Catholic church, everyone there already or about to
become strangers . . .



I’m beguiled and stumped - “in the sacristy at the local Catholic church,
everyone there already or about to become strangers…”

Already or about to become strangers?

Not being technically Catholic myself (though I think they claim
everybody,) I sometimes wonder about  what I’m missing.
At best I think of something like that Pink Floyd line, “calls the faithful
to their knees, to hear the softly spoken magic spell”

Related to that would the Windust nups be such a sacrilege as to estrange
everyone there - and from whom? Each other? Themselves?
https://youtu.be/b_-YfmyXlMo


Or would the disjunctions perpetrated by the neoliberal fever dream cause
the estrangement, despite Windust’s attempt to observe the forms, which in
and of itself - wasn’t so evil?

There’s a tenet that even a wicked priest can confer sacraments &
blessings, right?

But can an unholy recipient receive grace?

Even I know there’s stipulations.


Tangential or related -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/06/09/4-men-convicted-in-murder-of-guatemalan-bishop/52d264b1-4d98-4df7-bb6a-edefce8441a5/