that's a great story Ken; though it's all very frustrating. to be
terrorised into belief
KS
On 03/08/07, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> kasper salonen wrote:
> > "Bertand Russell -for getting me out of religion"
> >
> > James Joyce is almost getting me back to religion.. the
> > Hell-description in the third chapter of 'Portrait of a young man' is
> > utterly terrifying
> >
>
> This both true and mostly funny. Man I knew in grad school, morning on
> Malta, spent seven years as a Jesuit, i.e., he didn't stick around to
> become a priest. In his novice year a bunch of he new boys were taken
> by boat to a small island and put through a three-day retreat. On
> Friday evening the Prefect delivered a sermon on Hell which duplicated
> the *Portrait* sermon. Probably it was a standard fear-of-God piece of
> rhetoric but it worked. Joe (my friend) tried shaking it off but back
> in his room the horror hit him, and by 1 AM he was rushing down the hall
> to the Prefect's room for the sacrament of Confession. He found all his
> brother novices there for the same thing: scared out of their wits, come
> to confess. The Prefect told them he'd hear their confessions in the
> morning. Someone said "It IS morning, Father, and you got us into this,
> now help us get out!"
>
> Ken
>
> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
> We'll do the best we know.
> We'll build our house and chop our wood
> And make our garden grow...
>
> Bernstein/Wilbur, "Candide"
>
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