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This quote is circulating: Any cleric or monk who seduces young men or boys, or who is apprehended in kissing or in any shameful situation, shall be publicly flogged and shall lose his clerical tonsure. Thus shorn, he shall be disgraced by spitting into his face, bound in iron chains, wasted by six months of close confinement, and for three days each week put on barley bread given him toward evening. Following this period, he shall spend a further six months living in a small segregated courtyard in the custody of a spiritual elder, kept busy with manual labor and prayer, subjected to vigils and prayers, forced to walk at all times in the company of two spiritual brothers, never again allowed to associate with young men for purposes of improper conversation or advice. It is suppose to be from Saint Basil the Great. I have done a brief search of his writtings but nothing came up. Is this really his quote?
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Originally posted by Ray Stiegler:
It is suppose to be from Saint Basil the Great. I have done a brief search of his writtings but nothing came up. Is this really his quote? Ray, John Allen is apparently the progenitor of the current attribution to Saint Basil; accurate or not, he apparently quotes it in "All the Pope\'s Men" [twincities.com] . However, I also found it attributed in a news article to "Saint Basil, a Benedictine monk" [santacruzsentinel.com] , who reportedly said it in 1107; however, I can't find any Benedictine Saint by that name. Another, on-line, piece attributes it to the "Rule of Compludo in 11th century canon law" [findarticles.com] - by which reference is apparently meant a document titled "Rule for the Monastery of Compludo", written by Fructosus of Braga. A virulently anti-Catholic site, purportedly run by and for abused Catholics, credits it to Saint Peter Damien [abusedcatholics.com] in the 11th century - (be advised this site is lurid in language and description). Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Thanks!
I had my doubts about the quote.
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Ya know. Say what they may. The Holy Catholic Church will triumph. We have our Lord's word on it.
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That quote does sound like a good idea, though.
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That quote sounds like some horror out of the Arabian Nights. A program of organized spitting in someone's face has no place in any Christian practice, let alone in the Holy Fathers or in a well-ordered monastery.
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Maybe not but it was sure a delight with Hanoi Jane.
Who by the way feigns being a Christian now.
You should hear her definition.
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