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Next thing they'll get rid of full stops altogether. Slippery slope as it is!

O tempora! O mores!

This is a strange one. Until recent centuries there was a medieval tradition of devotion to the Holy Foreskin. A mystic named Agnes Blannbekin (1244-1315), relayed to her confessor an experience of having the foreskin of Christ on her tongue and swallowing it. This happened around 100 times. The matter was taken to Pope Innocent III who decided “(r)ather than attempt rash answers to such questions, it is better that they be left entirely to God.”

Mystic Saint Catherine of Sienna also wrote about receiving a wedding ring from Christ made of His foreskin. Not a devotion that would suit todays Catholics outside a cloistered Order.

https://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/the-holy-foreskin/

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his family were practicing Catholics and in fact he had attended the 7am Mass at Our Lady Queen of the Angels at Newport beach on the day of his death in a helicopter crash.

https://myfox8.com/news/kobe-bryant-sto ... f-faith-2/

Women are smarter than men. See here... https://www.tiktok.com/@lisagringa973/v ... 6721042718

I refuse to have anything whatsoever to do with TikTok.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:29 pm I refuse to have anything whatsoever to do with TikTok.

Tiktok is Chinese spyware which is why the federal government and many states have passed laws forbidding it from being installed on any government owned phone, or any privately owned phone which is used to conduct government business.

You can look at Tik Tok without signing up. But ok here's some Seminarians singing to make y'all happier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gauNSw-aUMg

Doom wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:17 pm

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:29 pm I refuse to have anything whatsoever to do with TikTok.

Tiktok is Chinese spyware which is why the federal government and many states have passed laws forbidding it from being installed on any government owned phone, or any privately owned phone which is used to conduct government business.

Yep. I am a big social media user, early adopter of tech, and I would NOT use Tiktok

Although we now use the word 'bead' to describe small normally cylindrical objects often strung together in jewellery, even when talking about jewellry found dating back thousands of years... it was actually adapted from use of the Rosary chain. The etymology of the word bead is 'prayer'.

...this general sense of bead derived in turn from rosary beads, the little markers strung together for the purpose of helping a worshipper count prayers.

Originally, “beads” were not the little objects on the string, but the prayers being said. Bead in this sense is a cognate of German bitte, a word that is used to make a request. Someone praying with a rosary was said to be “telling his beads,” that is, counting his prayers. Another meaning of the verb to tell is “to count.” (The bank teller counts out your money.) Historically, wealthy patrons would pay people to pray for them on a regular basis. These professionals were called beadsmen or beadswomen. Keats begins his poem St. Agnes’ Eve with this evocation of a harsh winter’s evening:

St. Agnes’ Eve–Ah, bitter chill it was! 

The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; 

The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,

And silent was the flock in woolly fold:

Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told

His rosary, and while his frosted breath,

Like pious incense from a censer old,

Seem’d taking flight for heaven…

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-cu ... y-of-bead/

These Rosary 'beads' were initially counted on prayer ropes knotted with the appropriate number needed for purpose and dated to the 3rd century Desert Fathers as a way of counting the psalms prayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Rosary

A friend of mine when hoping for a good spot to park will always say "Hail Mary full grace, help me find a parking space". But this bit of trivia made me laugh...

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants, and of the religious institute, and is also, informally, recognized an effective intercessor for finding a parking space.

“Mother Cabrini, Mother Cabrini, please find a spot for my little machiney.”

Didn’t you post this once already? I seem to remember saying then that the Church has no such position.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:41 am Didn’t you post this once already?

Can't remember. Maybe on another forum.

I seem to remember saying then that the Church has no such position.

Which is why I notated it both 'trivia' and 'informally' recognised.

Late 70's/early 80's mens business work wear in tropical Australia.

Stella wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:04 pm

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:41 am Didn’t you post this once already?

Can't remember. Maybe on another forum.

I seem to remember saying then that the Church has no such position.

Which is why I notated it both 'trivia' and 'informally' recognised.

My mistake I looked at the wrong post.

IOW: You posted it once, but I saw it twice.

Pope John XXIII to Seminarians... "God save us from theologians!"

Source: Fr Jonesy and todays homily. I did try to verify it on the internet somewhere but it must be more an anecdotal legend orally spread. It was a very robust homily today about living the faith practically.

in 2001 the Archbishop of Canterbury approved a Cockney version of the Bible. Probably on the thin edge of appropriate.

https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/euro ... index.html

Here is that version of the Our Father.

Hello, Dad,
up there in good ol' Heaven,
Your name is well great and holy, and we respect you, Guv.

We hope we can all 'ave a butcher's at Heaven
and be there as soon as possible:
and we want to make you happy, Guv,
and do what you want 'ere on earth,
just like what you do in Heaven.

Guv, please give us some Uncle Fred,
and enough grub and stuff to keep us going today,
and we hope you’ll forgive us when we cock things up,
just like we're supposed to forgive them who annoy us and do dodgy stuff to us.

There's a lot of dodgy people around, Guv;
please don't let us get tempted to do bad things.

Help keep us away from all the nasty, evil stuff,
and keep that dodgy Satan away from us,
'cos you're much stronger than 'im.

You're the Boss, God, and will be for ever, innit?

Cheers!

Legend has it that Debbie Reynolds required 2 full days of bed rest after filming this iconic sequence from the 1952 film Singing in the Rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzu4m6xXR_I

Gene Kelly was sick during the filming of the Singin' in the Rain sequence. Maybe there was something going around the set.

There may well have been. They bred them tough in the golden days of Hollywood.