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Date Posted: Mon, October 02 2023, 8:31:19
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday, October 2, 2023

The following quotation is from An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2009. All Rights Reserved. Chapter 11 Transverse Lie

Half an hour of saying the rosary convinced him that he had done as much in that direction as was necessary or desirable for the sake of Lizzie and her impending child. Saying the rosary for penance - aye, he saw the point of that, particularly if you had to say it on your knees. Or to quiet one’s mind, fortify the soul, or seek the insight of meditation on sacred topics, eye, that, too. But not for petition. If he were God, or even the Blessed Virgin, who was renowned for patience, he thought he would find it tedious to listen to more than a decade or so of someone saying please about something over and over, and surely there was no point to boring a person whose aid you sought?

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[> I can sure relate to this. I’m not Catholic so I don’t say the rosary, but have the same feeling about “petitioning God.” Gratitude prayers are easy, confessing prayers are squirmy and petitions are rare. -- Kathy in PA, Tue, October 03 2023, 3:27:59


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[> I'm pretty certain this is Jamie, who while a man of strong faith, is imminently practical as well. -- DianaH, Tue, October 03 2023, 10:21:29


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[> [> Didn't he once refer to Hiram Crombie's group as God-naggers? -- kgp, Tue, October 03 2023, 11:43:20


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