BS: One Saint in One Thread

Subject: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: LadyJean
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 11:40 PM

I have this from a friend who teaches Catholic theology, but don't hold that against her.
St. Theresa of Avilla, the great mystic, was travelling with some of her nuns. The weather was bad, their cart threw a wheel, and they wound up in a ditch full of mud.
St. Theresa asked God, "Why, Your Majesty, when we are doing your work, do you treat us so?" God responded, "This is how I treat my friends." "No wonder," the saint replied, "You have so few of them." I've been having one of those weeks. This story seemed apropos.

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 02:08 AM

Hey, I have a degree in Catholic theology, and I had some wonderful teachers.
I wonder if it would cheer you up to go to the movies and see Bruce Almighty. It's a great flick, with an interesting view of God.
I hope things start looking up for you.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Allan C.
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 06:53 AM

Years ago I had a "Ziggy" cartoon poster that hung in my bathroom. It depicted him sitting on the toilet, looking at an empty paper roll. The caption read, "Did you ever have one of those lives....?" It fairly well summed up my point of view during that era of my life.

Some time later I found a "B.C." comic strip showing a Dodo bird diving off a cliff and flapping its disproportional wings. The caption read, "So far, so good!" That seemed to cover my sensibilities of the time.

I haven't found a cartoon that parallels my current state of mind, but a favorite is also a "B.C." strip in which a bearded character accidentally gets too close to a torch, his hair catching fire. In the final frame he is shown peering at his reflection in a pool of water and he says, "I've invented shaving!"

I know these are weak attempts at cheering you up; but it is the best I can do at the moment. Best wishes to you, LadyJean.

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 07:09 AM

Back in the 60's I carried a Charlie Brown cartoon in my wallet for moments like you are having LadyJean. Lucy was 'Psychiatrist', counselling CB. Captions read...

There is one good thing about adversity... It gives us the strength... To face more adeversity!

LOL - Sam

PS - we may have to start a BC thread Alan - great stuff, eh!

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 08:59 AM

Well, maybe it helps to look on it as a sense of humor at work -- may hap God is just having a little fuin, just that his idea of humor is inconsiderate as hell, like some Cosmic Six Year Old....

A

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 09:07 AM

The Catholic Church is, or was, looking for a patron saint for computers. No one has taken up my idea of using St. Fiacre, the patron saint of hemmorhoids and other pains in the arse.

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Wesley S
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 09:17 AM

There was a man who started to have a run terrible luck. He lost his job, his wife took his children and ran away with his best friend, his dog died, his car was stolen - and then his house burned down.

The man decided to try to play a game of golf to get his mind off of his troubles. He tees up at the first hole. When he swings his club up in the air to tee off a bolt of lightning comes down from the sky and zaps him. When he awakes he looks up at the sky and says "God - what have I done to you to deserve all of this ? Why are you so angry with me? "

The man hears a booming voice coming out of the sky. Surely it's the voice of God himself. And the voice says -

"I don't know - there's just something about you that really pisses me off"

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Hollowfox
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 09:55 AM

Ah, St Theresa, she who said, "God walks among the saucepans." I guess she preferred the King's Kitchen over the King's Court. Well LadyJean, I'll fire up one of my purebred @#%$-reduction candles as soon as I get home from work. {{{LadyJean}}}

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: harpgirl
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 10:14 AM

Ladyjean
Maybe it would cheer you up to read Gertrude Stein's libretto, " Four Saints in Three Acts, in which St. Teresa of Avila plays a pivotal part. It is silly, singing nonsense and meant to be lighthearted and gay. Gertrude said saints shouldn't do anything!!! harpgirl (with catholic tastes)

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Peg
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 10:14 AM

I love BC! My brother had lots of the books around when I was a kid; I wonder if he kept them??

"Clams got legs!"

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: lady penelope
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 05:01 PM

"Remember that in life there are good days and bad days and that this is one of them" Les Barker.


You gotta laugh............ Much hugs,

Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: NicoleC
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 05:05 PM

My favorite 'yep that's life' cartoon is he Far Side cartoon of the paramecium's. In the top frame, they are all having a party with martini's and having a grand old time. On the bottom frame, the house is wrecked, the glasses broken and they are all mashed. The caption says, "Life on a microscrope slide."

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 05:26 PM

LOL!

A

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 06:06 PM

I've got a bunch of BC collections from the '60 and '70s, stored with the rest of my life.

I've had a feeling for some years that the current crop of cartoonists can give a better perspective of life than all of the current philosophers.

"I wouldn't have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was ad-libbed." -- Calvin's Dad.

"We're always somebody to somebody else." -- Calvin's Mom.

And Gary Larson and Bill Watterson and Bill Amend and Darby Connolly and Pat Brady and "Boondocks" and....

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 08:18 PM

Is this the place for theological jokes? I'm not sure this is a joke but...I sort of like it:

Jesus went to visit some prisoners on death row. He approached one inmate and said, "I've come to die for your sins."

The prisoner said, "Then what am I supposed to die for?"

Jesus pulled a little notebook out of his pocket and said, "I'm not sure, but if you'll give me your name, I'll see that one of my disciples gets back to you on this."

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 09:07 PM

That's quietly side-splittingly funny!! Thanks for the best grin this month, jim!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 09:19 PM

ummm....from an earlier thread

ain't folk processing interesting?

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 10:11 PM

Bill D: Actually, I think I read the same book! A long time ago, and I no longer have it. I was telling the story from memory. Yours looks like you looked it up. Thanks. I hope I find the book again sometime. I think I would like to read it again.

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 10:20 PM

I just checked both the Library of Congress website and Amazon.com, and I find that

1) The author's name is A. J. Langguth, and
2) There is a new paperback edition issued this year! (At $22. Maybe I'll see if I can get it from a library.)

Subject: RE: BS: One Saint in One Thread
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Jun 03 - 06:12 PM

The thing is, St Theresa was actually from a Jewish family, and that's very much in line with a Jewish tradition of humour.