You use the expression "cotton on...." anyone know the
derivation????
Steve....
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Monastery Library wrote:
> BUT
>
> People would cotton on pretty quickly...
>
>
> I never choked on the sixpences my mother put in Christmas
> pudding
>
> BUT (2)
>
> I do agree, you have a point about hagiography. It is well
> illustrated in the Life Of Anthony (Athanasius), where it is
> established that A. was an absolute pioneer, the first, etc to lead
> the solitary life (because he is a *type* ). Yet one of the
> essential things aboput a monachos (even if it did originally mean
> celibate ) is that you first sit at the feet of an Abba, and that
> for some time, while he produces an occasional Word. So Anthony did
> just that, to fulfil the norm (>> that the scriptures might be
> fulfilled<<), there being a suitable holy man already installed at a
> convenient distance.
>
> In hagiography you are allowed to have your cake and eat it
> (without choking)
>
> Anselm Cramer OSB
> monachos
>
>
> >On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 G.P. Ferzoco wrote:
> >
> >>Today, 28 February is the feast of ...
> >[snip, snip]
> >>*Luisa Albertoni, widow (1533)
> >>- she would bake bread for the poor and give it to them, but only
> >>after placing gold and silver coins in the bread.
> >
> >Now, this strikes me as a rather risky thing to do because one might
> >choke on a coin. Did this ever happen, and with what consequences?
> >And if someone died through choking on a coin in Luisa Albertoni's
> >bread, would that have wiped out whatever merit would otherwise have
> >attached to her providing the bread?
> >
> >Curiouser and curiouser (to me, anyway).
> >
> >Mark Harris
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> >
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