  Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1507 Registered: 04-2005 |
(Sweat pours down CFG's forehead) | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 656 Registered: 04-2008 |
The church! What is it? | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1508 Registered: 04-2005 |
It's a big building with parishoners, but that's not important right now | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 164 Registered: 03-2008 |
as the sweat pours down on CFG - nothing new - reminds her of the past Sunday. - Shirley -you don't expect me to go on this mission alone! | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 657 Registered: 04-2008 |
I am serious and don't call me Shirley (Message edited by zitro on June 06, 2008) | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1509 Registered: 04-2005 |
St. Jude's thread was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit. | ||
7_and_kelly_kid Member Username: 7_and_kelly_kid Post Number: 190 Registered: 12-2007 |
This is just an EASY warm-up gang!........wait til we get to finding a relic of a Guardian Angel!••••••• that might be tough........... (Message edited by 7_and_kelly_kid on June 06, 2008) | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 165 Registered: 03-2008 |
Couldn't resist, Z | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1511 Registered: 04-2005 |
CFG, In one of the offices I was at today, the office mgr’s fiancé used to teach at St. Jude. He got let go 4 years ago when they re-organized as East Catholic Elementary, but he had been there for 15. He was friends with the organist. I think she said his name was Paul. Do you remember him? | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 166 Registered: 03-2008 |
No, I had left SJ for about 10 years after they changed the interior of the church. I didn't care for the pastors that followed, but showed up for Mass and eventually changed parishes and went to AG. Betty never left, but I really only came back as a parishoner in the fall. Father Robert's the one that made the difference and has made me feel welcomed back home. I'm not familiar with any of the organists from previous years. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 168 Registered: 03-2008 |
Even as a little kid, I wondered how they got ahold of a piece of the real St. Jude who was last seen about 2,000 years ago. Inquiring mind want to know. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1523 Registered: 04-2005 |
I know that in the middle ages, selling relics of the saints was a real big scam that the Catholic church ran. At some church in England, they had a (supposed)vial of the Virgin Mary's breast milk. Now you try to keep THAT liquid in the 16th century. They raised a lot of money selling relics and indulgences: a 'pass' from a sin, IF you paid for it. One of the big relics, and still 'available' when I was a kid, was a sliver from the real Cross. How do you verify something like that? | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 658 Registered: 04-2008 |
JC: It's called blind faith | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1528 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm not saying all relics are fake, I'm just saying it was used as a fund raiser in the middle ages. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 169 Registered: 03-2008 |
Then there was the gruesome practice of dicing up someone's skeleton, saint or not, to supply the relic market. I suspect a lot of soup bones got into the act. It is, however, as Z says "blind faith. Many bought into it and it may have brought them closer to their higher power so what's the harm? The selling of relics & indulgences, on the other hand........................ Wonder if there's a market for such things today. Could be the start of a retirement job for me. Have a great day, gang. Off to the city for my niece's graduation party. She's the product of one of our few remaining Catholic high schools - Ladywood. That place sure put her on the right track after her folks transferred her out of the public system. May have, figuratively, saved her life. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1533 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ladywood was around when I was at Regina. It was one of our westside rivals. Have fun. | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 551 Registered: 04-2007 |
I've asked Lowell to separate the SJ thread from the Eastside Mega thread. IMHO, continuity of communication will be affected by adding additional threads......Sometimes success can be too good. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 176 Registered: 03-2008 |
C'mon back, kids. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 720 Registered: 04-2008 |
Ahhh, fresh air. We're right back where we started from... Thank goodness too. The extra clicks were getting to me. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 670 Registered: 04-2008 |
Thanks KR & thanks to Lowell for understanding. Indeed it's nice to come up for fresh air from all of that stagnant sewer water. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 721 Registered: 04-2008 |
Getting back to the subject of relevant relics, the following article should answer most of our questions on the subject: http://www.newadvent.org/cathe n/12734a.htm | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 671 Registered: 04-2008 |
Is there a Reader's Digest version? | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 554 Registered: 04-2007 |
  The above two are invitation responses to the Golden Jubilee celebration (printed July 7, 1991) Eastburn can relate to Sr. Thomas Annete's response.. The school had more students than I thought with 1700 in the late 50s and two grades with double sessions. | ||
7_and_kelly_kid Member Username: 7_and_kelly_kid Post Number: 196 Registered: 12-2007 |
I totally forgot about the "double sessions".....if I'm reading it right........we have to do 4th and 5th grade again?.....I know I'll do better in history this time ......there's so much less of it now! | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 178 Registered: 03-2008 |
I remember Sr. Thomas Annette - at least the name but can't put a face to it. I believe I had her as a teacher. "Less history"???? There's a lot more. Those double sessions may explain my abject ignorance of certain subjects. | ||
7_and_kelly_kid Member Username: 7_and_kelly_kid Post Number: 197 Registered: 12-2007 |
EB........you're right....I phrased it wrong......anyway,........1/2 sessions are right..I only paid attention about 1/2 the time | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 555 Registered: 04-2007 |
Sr, Thomas Annette was the principal of St. Jude from 54-60. She was there during my first grade. Did she also teach?? | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1555 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm baaaacck. Power just came back on. Yahoooo!! Now I can email, drink iced tea, have my air conditioner and my TV on, and talk to you all on the net. Life is good again. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 1556 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sorry for the double post between here and St.Jude School and Church. I got confused about where I should be. Hopefully this is the right spot. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 723 Registered: 04-2008 |
J, great news about your power restoration, but I'm hoping for just enough rain at COPA for them to call the game and erase those 8 runs scored against us. How long were you out? |
