Consumer Irony

I knew about the Our Lady of Guadalupe votive candles beside the refried beans at the grocery store.

And there’s HappyMart in southern Virginia, with guns and milkshakes at the same counter.

But Bernard of Cluny’s De Contemptu Mundi at Target.com ?!

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