Father Christian's condition has deteriorated, although with Tamiflu and a nebulizer he's expected to be feeling much better in the next 24 hours.
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'Consuella'
In the meantime, while he heals, he has instructed us to meditate on the icon pictured above.
Pray and meditate.
UPDATE: Thankfully, it appears that Fr Christian is on the mend.
Prayers ascending!
ReplyDeletePrayers for Father Christian's recovery.
ReplyDeleteBut who will teach us the Bible while he is under the weather?
ReplyDeleteBill, we have no one. We are bereft, lost, like sheep without a shepherd.
ReplyDeleteWe will hold a vigil in Central America!
ReplyDeleteWith a vast crowd, no doubt, Leo.
ReplyDeleteUmmm, you do realize that's the British equivalent of The Finger, right?
ReplyDeleteIT, I did not. I am an innocent. Still, we gotta do what Fr Christian tells us, don't we?
ReplyDeleteMimi, I assumed you did know the gesture (though are too much of a lady ever to use it). Do any events while you were in the UK make more sense now?
ReplyDeleteIT must hang out in the same low-brow neighborhoods as I do.
No Paul, folks can rather easily take advantage of me. No one showed me the two fingers while I was in England. Respect for the aged perhaps?
ReplyDeleteStill, we must obey Fr Christian, mustn't we?.
Dear Grandmère,
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign
a.k.a. the bowfinger.
My favorite aetiological story concerning this gesture is that the French threatened to cut off the bowfingers of the English bowmen before the battle of Agincourt. The victorious English gave the French this gesture and exclaimed that they could still pluck their bows made of yew wood, accompanied by cries of "We can still pluck yew! Pluck yew!
And of course, in time the plosive and liquid consonants degraded into a fricative, and "pluck yew!" became...
Agaveagh, thank you for the additional information. But now you've set my imagination to running WILD.
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