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| Topic Started: Friday, 3. February 2012, 21:52 (1,336 Views) | |
| Gerard | Wednesday, 15. February 2012, 18:50 Post #76 |
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Nothing to do with the praying then? Gerry |
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| Anne-Marie | Wednesday, 15. February 2012, 21:19 Post #77 |
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Very much to do with the praying - I was immobilised in a bed in my room, and relied on the iest returning to tell me his version of what happened as he blessed her: Whatever the cause, the effect was instant! |
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| Gerard | Wednesday, 15. February 2012, 21:43 Post #78 |
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I read many books about healing and many contain stories of priests ministering the "last sacrament" only to be surprised at the dramatic improvement of the patient. Frequently followed by suggestions that the diagnosis was wrong, or the priest couldnt understand it, or ..... anything but acknowlege that the sacrament is intended to heal. Gerry |
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| CARLO | Saturday, 18. February 2012, 01:47 Post #79 |
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Quite right Gerry. Pax CARLO |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 18. February 2012, 17:27 Post #80 |
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During years when I was more conversant with priests I used to hear of them struggling miles in attrocious weather to visit parishioners at death's door only to find them sitting-up in bed and very much alive. In those days very few had cars and during WW2 petrol was severely rationed anyway, if people qualified.
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| Deacon Robert | Monday, 20. February 2012, 00:22 Post #81 |
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I probably have said it before, but, I have had a rosary with me for most of my life. I use it to pray it when time allows. When I was in the military I wore it around my neck. There were two reasons, first you may not have anything in your pockets. The second is it is trapped under your flack vest and makes no noise. I belive in Mary's promise. Today I carry it in a burse at all times. |
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne | |
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| Rose of York | Monday, 20. February 2012, 00:41 Post #82 |
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A woman wearing a summer frock on a hot day is unlikely to have any pockets, so why not wear the rosary around her neck? Nobody can spend a penny in our house without noticing we flaunt our faith. To get there, they go through a small lobby, where there is a crucifix on one wall and a nice plaque of Our Lady on the opposite wall. If they sit down on an armchair in our place they see a Victorian brass crucifix. Some people who know I have a brain and some common sense look at me in surprise and say "Are you Catholic?" |
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| Rose of York | Monday, 20. February 2012, 00:57 Post #83 |
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One would never see nuns being so vulgar as to flaunt their faith in public.
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| Mairtin | Monday, 20. February 2012, 09:44 Post #84 |
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If I die tomorrow, I would like to think that I will be judged on my overall life over the last 60 years - or at least the last 53 years since I reached the Church's nominal age of reason - rather than how I happen to have spent the last few minutes of my life. |
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| Angus Toanimo | Monday, 20. February 2012, 09:51 Post #85 |
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You're too quick for me, a chara - you'll have to give me a month or so to come up with a dacent response to that one....
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| Derekap | Monday, 20. February 2012, 11:25 Post #86 |
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When I, admittedly with help of a few others, liberated part of the 'Black South' of The Netherlands (as Protestants 'beyond the rivers' called it) in Autumn 1944 such was a common sight. Though the bicycles were more of the 'Sit-up and beg' type. |
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| OsullivanB | Monday, 20. February 2012, 12:11 Post #87 |
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Which one is you, Derek? |
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| moderator team | Tuesday, 21. February 2012, 21:29 Post #88 |
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This thread has been radically edited to take account of an observation received from a member. Apologies to those whose babies may have gone out with the bathwater. |
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| Derekap | Tuesday, 21. February 2012, 22:21 Post #89 |
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OsB asked which one of the nuns in the picture was me. British Intelligence didn;t think I was intelligent enough to work for them. As I said, I had liberated the part of Netherlands, I didn't need disguise.
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| OsullivanB | Tuesday, 21. February 2012, 23:30 Post #90 |
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Oops my mistake. I like the idea of the habit as a Secret Service disguise though: "My name is Bond - Sister James Bond." |
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