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From: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Apr 2000 08:56:01 -0700653_iso-8859-1 April 9 – Venerable Scorner of This World’s Vainglory and Impermanence
The Venerable Priest Fray Antonio Maldonado; a native of Salamanca and the son of Noble and wealthy Parents; Primogeniture of considerable revenue, for which cause he was betrothed to the daughter of a Vassal Lord.
On the day of his engagement’s celebrations, he entered a tournament, richly adorned and gallantly dressed. That night he could find no rest, in consideration of the impermanence of the world’s glory; and so, in the morning, with gallant resolution, he fled to the Convent of Our Father San Francisco, where he took on [...]39_9Apr200008:56:[log in to unmask] |
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In a message dated 04/08/2000 8:02:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> >Thankfully in western Europe god has been officially dead
> > for well over 100 years now, but even today large sectons of the great
> >uneducated Amerikkkan public are intellectually living in the dark
ageusbvs.
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No, our real problem is that we're so off the track that we never had a "dark
ages" on this continent. It makes for all kinds of anguish.
When my husband and I visited a friend in Vienna, he spent a whole month
enthusiastically hauling us around to see all kinds of wonderful cathedrals
and village churches, most of them very old. When he came to New York, his
first words were "I vant to see your churches." I couldn't believe he was
asking this! What churches? We don't have any charming medieval monasteries
or 12th century cathedrals. I finally took him to some 19th century
imitations, and you would have thought he was touring Chartres. He kept
saying, "byootiful, byootiful." I was so embarrassed. I guess it wouldn't
have been much of an improvement had he murmured, "don't you folks have
anything that's more authentic"?
pat
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