PreTeena by Allison Barrows for July 22, 2023

Why not go to temple with Stick?

You mean brownie points with God for going to church twice?

A man showed up at the Pearly Gates and St. Peter said to him, “OK, you may not have heard this, but here’s how it works. You tell me why you should get into heaven and I assign points. A perfect 100 points gets you in.”

The man said: “Oh, OK…uh, I went to church every Sunday, never missed.”

St. Pete says: “1/2 point.”

The man says: “Oh, man, this is going to be tougher than I thought…let’s see…I served many shifts in the soup kitchen.”

“Well, I never cheated on my wife- not even in my mind!”

“OK, 2 points.”

“Augh” says the man. “At this rate, I’ll only get in by the grace of God!”

""Congratulations," says Peter. “100 points!”

https://www.gocomics.com/preteena/2002/03/16

So compromise and watch Mass on EWTN instead.

I was raised Catholic; Mass was on Sunday. =P

Uncanny valley with Preteena’s mom in panels one and two.

OK, I’m not religious so I don’t know a lot about these things, and I don’t know who has mass on Saturdays. At least that’s how I interpret the conversation (Gordo’s family has a mass on Saturday and Teena’s family goes to their [presumably white bread New England Protestant] services on Sunday morning). Is it a Saturday evening Catholic mass (which apparently can be any day – my mother was raised such that she had to go to mass multiple times a week, hence she abandoned all that as an adult)? Does any other denomination have an actual mass?

You need to be seen with and by the right people, Teena.