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The Hagiography of Holy Confusion: The Complete Lives of the Teatime Saints
Paperback
Series: The Church of the Existential Teatime the Canon of Perpetual Infusion, Book 3
Publisher: Ismael Rodriguez
Published: Aug 12 2026
Pages: 590
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The saints have been steeped. The relics mislabeled. And the pigeon has returned.
Welcome to the Church of the Existential Teatime, where certainty is suspicious, enlightenment often occurs near a kettle, and most theological crises improve after tea.
The Hagiography of Holy Confusion: The Complete Lives of the Teatime Saints is the Third Book of the Canon of Perpetual Infusion, recorded for the modern reader by Ismael S. Rodriguez Jr.
Within these questionable pages you'll meet saints of oversteeped tea, mismatched socks, cosmic crumpets, awkward silences, second breakfasts, lost bookmarks, unexpected pigeons, crooked spoons, unanswered emails, wobbly tables, forgotten passwords, damp biscuits, unnecessary footnotes, and hopeless committees.
You'll also encounter disputed relics, contradictory biographies, ecclesiastical bureaucracy, and the Minor Miracles Department, whose investigations include prophetic toast, suspiciously convenient parking spaces, and destiny-shaped teabags.
Behind the absurdity lies a serious question:
What if some of life's most useful wisdom is hiding inside its ordinary confusion?
Part philosophical satire, part absurdist hagiography, and part affectionate parody of sacred texts, this is a book for readers who enjoy strange philosophy, eccentric saints, mock scholarship, existential humor, and theological questions served with tea.
You don't need to believe in the Church.
The Church remains philosophically conflicted about that itself.
The kettle is warm.
The biscuits are probably somewhere.
Amen... probably.
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