Encore Lisieux
One last trip to the home of Ste. Thérèse. I thanked her for the rose. Went to visit the glowing sisters next door, because two had given me their addresses on little slips of paper and, true to form, I promptly lost them. I didn't even know if they'd remember me...I didn't remember the one from Burkina Faso's name (if I ask anyone, tell me it's like Amandine but it's not...hopefully I'll get it...). The one from Vietnam recognized me instantly and reminded me she'd be praying for me on the 12th.
Ok, you take care of maybe thirty people a week, are you going to remember the name of one you saw three weeks ago, much less the date of their wedding? I see someone and I can't even place where I know them from...I really want to work on paying more attention to people when I meet them...I can't even remember names five minutes after I hear them!
Also saw help desk girl from Poland (whose name I also don't remember!) who is going back just before I do...
Tried to go to Sunday program which happens to start in April, unbeknownst to me...ran into a conference run by none other than the Community of the Beatitudes instead! They seemed to be going through the joyful mysteries of the rosary...I wasn't able to make anything really coherent out of it, but things I got out of it:
- the most beautiful church in the world is the soul.
- When Mary went to the temple for "purification" on the eighth day, it was more of a "seperation" then a "cleaning" (which I still don't get...I meant to ask what exactly she was being seperated from, as Jesus had already been born...)
- In (at least old) Jewish culture, the Bar Mitzfa is as important a ceremony as the wedding
- One of God's methods of creation is by seperation: seperation of the land from the water, the day from the night, etc. This appears to be one of the ways of creation predominant in masculinity: the Father tends to start to seperate his children from the mother (or at least the apron strings) and bring them out into the world, contributes to their becoming adults and individuals...just as in "going about the Father's buisness" Jesus achieves his adolescent assertion of independence from his mother (ok, and foster father...who if the holy family is anything like my family had a lot to deal with with Mary's reaction to Jesus' disappearance...)
and BTW, it was exactly a year ago that J. and I got engaged!
Ok, you take care of maybe thirty people a week, are you going to remember the name of one you saw three weeks ago, much less the date of their wedding? I see someone and I can't even place where I know them from...I really want to work on paying more attention to people when I meet them...I can't even remember names five minutes after I hear them!
Also saw help desk girl from Poland (whose name I also don't remember!) who is going back just before I do...
Tried to go to Sunday program which happens to start in April, unbeknownst to me...ran into a conference run by none other than the Community of the Beatitudes instead! They seemed to be going through the joyful mysteries of the rosary...I wasn't able to make anything really coherent out of it, but things I got out of it:
- the most beautiful church in the world is the soul.
- When Mary went to the temple for "purification" on the eighth day, it was more of a "seperation" then a "cleaning" (which I still don't get...I meant to ask what exactly she was being seperated from, as Jesus had already been born...)
- In (at least old) Jewish culture, the Bar Mitzfa is as important a ceremony as the wedding
- One of God's methods of creation is by seperation: seperation of the land from the water, the day from the night, etc. This appears to be one of the ways of creation predominant in masculinity: the Father tends to start to seperate his children from the mother (or at least the apron strings) and bring them out into the world, contributes to their becoming adults and individuals...just as in "going about the Father's buisness" Jesus achieves his adolescent assertion of independence from his mother (ok, and foster father...who if the holy family is anything like my family had a lot to deal with with Mary's reaction to Jesus' disappearance...)
and BTW, it was exactly a year ago that J. and I got engaged!
posted by Etrangère | 8:41 PM
3 Comments:
happy engagementaversary!
also, people remember you because you're memorable. ;-)
ah...thanks!
It's alright, very sweet of you, thanks!
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