Needing more real estate karma

I planted a new St. Joseph at the old house; it's still on the market. The woman at the Catholic gift store told me the priests advise not burying the statue but putting it in a place of reverence in the home and praying to St. Joseph daily. I can do that. But I asked whether I should put him in the house I'm trying to sell or the one I'm living in. She was perplexed. Told me I had to have him with me when I said the prayer (which she sold me for an additional $.49).

I split the difference. I plopped the statue in a flower bed, and put the prayer card in my purse.

I still worry about desecrating another faith's symbol. Then again, Joseph was a member of our tribe, and the Catholic shop got $8 out of me.

As charged...

I know about guilt. Jewish guilt is directly related to Catholic guilt. The difference, recently defined at a Seder by a recovering Catholic, is that Jewish guilt is inflicted from external sources --say, your mother. Catholic guilt apparently comes from within.

Now I'm told of another version: Protestant guilt. I thought Protestants gave up guilt when Martin Luther nailed his Theses to the church door.