At 08.45 12/01/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Since this thread started, I have been wracking my mind trying to remember
>where, in the last two months, I read that Christians prayed standing with
>their arms outstretched or prone on the ground with their face down
venia
until
>vassalage (not defined) became the norm. At that point, Christians prayed
>on their knees, with their hands clasped as a vassal before his lord. I
>remember thinking, "I have to follow this up." Has anyone else read this
>and how probable is this?
>
>Kathryn
>
>We did discuss all this earlier.
>
>
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God, of your goodness, give me yourself: for you are enough to me, and I may
ask nothing that is less, that is fully worthy of you. And if I ask anything
that is less, I am ever wanting, for only in you I have all.
Julian of Norwich, _Showings_, Westminster Cathedral Manuscript, fols. 75v-76.
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