Blue advent clarification

Because I usually inhabit a Catholic Blogging ghetto, I don't often realize that I actually might have readers that aren't Catholic.  I think something bears a little clarification.

The priest wore blue vestments, and the shock from this comes from the fact that in most any other Catholic church in the WORLD the priest that Sunday wore purple (or maybe rose). Since this priest chose to do something different (even ignoring whether or not blue is permitted), the attention is suddenly on him and his choice. Why is he wearing blue? What is he trying to communicate with his blue vestments when his brother priests in every corner of the world are wearing something different? In many ways this takes the attention away from Him in whose Name we gather and focuses it on him, the priest.

And once he got our attention, what did he have to say? This part won't be a surprise to fellow Catholics who have already experienced blue-Advent priests. In his sermon, well-composed as it was, he explained to us that scripture was a metaphor, not ever meaning to be an historical or scientific text. While I grant that Scripture is full of metaphorical language (Song of Songs I'm fairly certain isn't about bestiality), calling the whole of it a metaphor negates, well, Christianity. Later in the Mass when the priest referred to our waiting for the return of the Risen Christ, I turned to Randy and asked him if he was talking about a real Christ or a metaphorical Christ. There's no way I want to bet my life on a metaphor.

So I look at the battles that they are fighting in China (as well as other places, but I am talking about my direct experience), and i just have to--sigh. Pray and sigh.