--- "J. Michael Walker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Maybe he
really was a monkly saint-wannabe, one of those guys who
> > decided the best way to get to heaven was to sleep between two lady
> > virgins until one had learned to feel nothing but indifference.
> -----------------------------------
> ->It takes a long time acquire such holy apathy.
> -----------------------------------
> > That's O.K. I'm not in a hurry.
> Ories.
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> >This message made me wonder what the other one felt?!
> >Bob (as smiling pedantic literalist)
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>
> There is obviously something in the air ("Is it hot in here or is it
> just
> me?" the joke goes). But what I think we should be most thankful
> for, is
> that the "angel in the form of a priest", who visited Maura and
> Bridget,
> arrived on the scene a few decades too late to trouble the already
> disturbing dreams of that same day's abbess, Sara. To wit:
>
> SARA, virgin, abbess (end of 4th cent.)
>
> Little is known of this virgin abbess in Scete, in Lybia, except that
> for thirteen years she was tormented with thoughts of impurity, which
> distressed inexpressibly her soul craving for pure and holy things.
>
>
> The thought of what might have ensued would surely inspire Bernini to
> create
> another of his blessed altarpieces, to the mixed pleasure and chagrin
> of our
> esteemed members (there's a pun for you, Oriens).
>
> jmichael
I really am trying to be good. I do think you folks might set me a
better example. Even the Krafty Doctor has creased his Olympean lips
into a smile at something I wrote in all innocence . . .
The Humid Doctor (Non humilis sed humidus, as Gregory might have put
it.)
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