to not have a clue what this priest meant???

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Went to meet the priest yesterday for my DS’ signing for secondary school
I go to church weekly but my DH isn’t religious so it’s either me or myself and DS

Hes been baptised and made his communion so the priest has known us 12 years and DH obviously attended those events and sometimes Christmas but nothing inbetween.

Anyway - priest happily signs and wishes DS luck in his new school and as we are leaving hands my DS a candle and says “ you can tell your dad he can glue back the pieces of the broken statues now “
DS didn’t know what to do so smiled as did the priest and I said something like “ I hope you don’t get caught in the rain getting home “

I was and still am so confused

me too

Is it a Catholic church? Could DS have mentioned something in confession?

maybe the priest has face-blindness and thought you were someone else.

No clue but I doubt very much a priest would repeat or refer to anything said in confession! It also doesn't sound like OP's DH attends confession

he thinks because your husband isn't a practising Catholic that he smashes religious statues up? that's all I can think of. Most odd.

Maybe he'd been on the communion wine? Has your husband ever smashed some statues?!

My first thought was some form of dementia. My mum has a rare dementia which involves a form of aphasia, in the earlier stages she often said things like that (that made no logical sense and didn't fit in the conversation in any way any one understood) but that were grammatically normal. It was odd for other people because she seemed outwardly totally fine otherwise but she just came out with the weirdest things

Can you not just ask your son what it was about?

Have you asked DH if he smashed anything when he last went?

Why would he know? Its DH that smashed something

Is it some turn of phrase meant to denote someone retuning to the faith?

I think the person to ask was the priest.

Unless he meant the infant of Prague's head, seeing it hadn't worked if it was raining. Maybe.

Yes, I think it sounds like this might be it

A pathetic attempt at humour

Sounds like a wee joke

My DH has never been to confession, neither have I.
DS went years ago when making his holy communion and said something about not listening to the teacher in class as his confession.
it was very odd as he didn’t laugh straight away - I couldn’t bring myself to say “ what do you actually mean “
He’s quite intimidating

No smashing up anything - we have no religious statues anywhere for DH to smash!

Honestly I think this is the most likely option!

He forgot who you were and thought you were another family, for whom that joke might have made sense.

Could it be that he fancies himself as a psychic and was hoping that you would say this to DH who would then confess to breaking an ornament.

Should've asked the priest what he meant.

If he's anything like the priests of my childhood, he was probably pissed as a fart.

Because it sounded like a personal thing between the son and the priest that was being hinted about. Something perhaps the son had told the priest about previously.

Is it anything to do with the school admission? A weird metaphor for “tell your dad you can go to your preferred school now”, perhaps?

I imagine he was speaking metaphorically about DH lack of faith. “Glue back the pieces of the broken statues” I.e “light this candle, make amends with God & faith, it is not too late”

I think he was encouraging your son to share his faith with his Father, nothing more. You’re looking too much into this.

I'd say it's a joke, but I don't quite get it. Dies he think your DH is secretly religious and has 'broken statues' to pretend to be otherwise or else 'broken statues' of another faith (even atheism) and can now go back to being a open believer. The statues just being metaphors.

Actually, I think @AnImaginaryCat might be on to something with the Child of Prauge and the rain…..

onefabday.com/child-of-prague/

I actually struggle with believing hence me overthinking this comment maybe - I don’t like the fact the non judgement that’s meant to come from a priest is actually all BS isn’t it and he is judging my DH for not being a believer!

DH has never smashed anything so DS couldn’t have told him anything like this - we don’t own statues!