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Flaunt the Faith by carrying a card
Topic Started: Friday, 3. February 2012, 21:52 (1,339 Views)
Derekap
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I wouldn't Adam and Eve it!
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CARLO
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Rose of York
Monday, 6. February 2012, 22:51
CARLO, for success how about having Urdu, Gaelic or Polish on your card? Nurses are dedicated to keeping people alive. A geriatric language could give out an unintended signal.

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My dear lady.

Any card of mine will be in Greek, Hebrew and Latin.

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Rose of York
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CARLO in the event of emergency hospitalisation you could be due for discharge before the staff have got hold of a classical scholar who can understand the words on your card.

How inconvenient!


Staff who are busy trying to save patients might accuse you of wasting their time.

How sad!

There could be delay in getting a priest, while you are fighting for your life. I don't know why I am telling you this, you know the likelihood of meeting one person on A & E Staff who understands Latin, Greek or Hebrew is minimal.
Keep the Faith!

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Ned

CARLO
Thursday, 9. February 2012, 01:19
Any card of mine will be in Greek, Hebrew and Latin.
I'm ashamed of it now, for it was very smart-alec, but ..

Forty and fifty years ago, like a lot of literate Catholics, I used to use a smart upmarket Catholic pocket diary with a plain black cover and a particular style of page-layout.

It was rather like a mason's tie. I only had to pull it out for others with such a diary to recognise it for what it was - but nobody else would know.
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OsullivanB

I used to belong to a drinking club. Many of the members and committee were Masons, though I did not at first know that.

When a group came in wearing black ties I thought they'd been to a funeral or at least a wake.

Didn't know that Masons wore black ties.

The Claddagh ring is another example of the surreptitious sign in the open.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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paul

I have far too many plastic cards in my wallet, credit cards, debit card, store cards etc. Which one will be read first.

ps Freemasons wear a black tie when attending meetings.
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CARLO
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I wear a black tie on a regular basis.

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My church is quite close to the Freemasons HQ on Great Queen St, so I frequently see groups of them in the evenings with their brief cases and (not always) black ties. I amuse myself by imagining them wearing their aprons and rolled up trousers legs.

A beloved great uncle of mine once had us in stitches, recounting the tale of the time he got taken to a masonic meeting by someone who wanted to recruit him, and what they got up to. He did end up joining, but never took it seriously and didn't bother much with going to meetings.
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Ned

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Thursday, 9. February 2012, 12:17
I used to belong to a drinking club. Many of the members and committee were Masons, though I did not at first know that.

When a group came in wearing black ties I thought they'd been to a funeral or at least a wake.

Didn't know that Masons wore black ties. ...
Yes, OSB, the Lodge must have been renting a room at your Club for their Lodge Meetings, and then using the bar afterwards. Masons used to always wear black ties for their Lodge Meetings, supposedly in mourning for their brother-Masons who fell in World War 1. I'm not sure if they still do.

But the Masons - or at least some of them, I don't know about all of them - have their own range of ties for everyday use; all smart, restrained and unremarkable, without any masonic symbols - but of course recognisable by those who own similar.
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Rose of York
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LET US SPECULATE.

What percentage of Catholics wear anything with a masonic symbol?
What percentage of masons will carry Catholic cards?

What percentage of Catholics will wear something with a masonic signet ring and carry a Catholic card?
What percentage of masons will carry a Catholic card and carry a Catholic card?

Catholics are not allowed to use crystal balls, so we can only guess the answers.
Keep the Faith!

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OsullivanB

Do we include Italy in our calculations?
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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OsullivanB
Friday, 10. February 2012, 18:50
Do we include Italy in our calculations?
Or, in the case of the Vatican, Is there anyone who ISN'T a mason??? :wall:
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Ned

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Friday, 10. February 2012, 18:49
Catholics are not allowed to use crystal balls, so we can only guess the answers.
Hopefully there are better arrangements than that in place at the Vatican Bank.

It's a sobering thought but here in London an important aspect of the Finance Industry's self-policing involves gossip; people knowing what's going on in the various institutions.

People attend the same churches etc. - and also some people are Freemasons.
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Walking past Freemasons Hall in London last Summer I rather naughtily joined a group of people being ushered in by a person who seemed to be some kind of tour guide. They were visitors from all over the world and sure enough a tour was about to begin.

"We're all Mason here I assume" smiled our charming Masonic guide to which I made no reply!

We were then taken on a wonderful tour of the building and told it's history together with a lot of interesting Masonic chit chat!

I enjoyed the tour greatly and made a point of thanking our guide before leaving.

Did I commit any sins? If so, which ones?

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pete

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I enjoyed the tour greatly and made a point of thanking our guide before leaving.

If you had shook his hand Carlo that would have been a clear give-away
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