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09/30/2006: "These are the Days!"
These are the Days, Parishioners,
these are the days!
Spring has sprung
(albeit far too briefly)
and Summer is here!
I am on the downhill run!
Two weeks holiday starting next Friday!
And Monday is also a holiday -
(some sporting events, apparently...)
and I am winding UP!
This evening I tasted some fine wines -
left with a few -
including the Great St Hugo -
co-incidentally, a Benedictine!
AND
Abbott of Cluny, 'Tish!
Looks like he rocked a bit -
Hugh's character bears many points of resemblance to that of his great contemporary and friend, St. Gregory VII. Both were animated with a burning zeal to extirpate the abuses then prevalent among the clergy, to crush investiture with its corollaries, simony and clerical incontinence, and to rescue Christian society from the confusion into which the reckless ambition and avarice of rulers and the consequent political instability had thrown it.
(Oh, there was also a St Hugh of Champagne!)
and came home to a Rectory
redolent with chocolate & strawberries!
To paraphrase a National Icon
THIS IS THE LIFE!
lerevdr on Sat 30-Sep-2006 @ 11:52 e.s.t [permalink]
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Replies: 2 Comments
On Monday, October 2nd, at 21:56 e.s.t, Brother B said:
I prefer the Abbot of Costello.
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On Tuesday, October 3rd, at 16:15 e.s.t, le Rev Dr said:
Would that, Frere B,
be he who is known as The Mad Monk -
the guy trying to drag Oz back into the Dark Ages?
PS: do you think vocalist Anna Mae Slaughter and announcer Johnny McGovern are the original celebrity B&D couple?
PPS: http://tinyurl.com/hemfb
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