Ah, one of the many rituals of the Catholic Church to distract people from the actual theology.
I remember as a child being forced to attend “venerations” where the host was placed in this ornately-adorned golden monstrosity (or was that a monstrance) while priests in elaborate vestments chanted in Latin while marching around shaking another device (whose name I cannot recall) dispensing incense.
Somehow that did not conjure up an image of how a first century wandering rabbi would worship God. Actually, upon recollection, it seems more like the setting for a seance.
One of my coworkers was a nurse and a Roman Catholic. Her daughter was graduating from high school and part of the ceremony involved kissing the archbishop’s ring. “I told her I didn’t care whose ring it was, go through the motions but don’t you DARE kiss it!”
Both my sister and my wife went to the same nursing school (several years apart). I remember the first week each of them came home. Everything was “Gross Contamination”. In short, you couldn’t eat anything you touched with your hands. It makes you wonder how the human race survived the Paleolithic Era.
I forget what temple in Lhasa (and am too lazy to dig out my notes) had a tablet inscribed with a treatment for some horrible disease. The superstitious came to believe that simply touching the tablet would cure the disease, and wore the inscription off.
Sisu60 over 5 years ago
with all the body parts talk this one has gone over my head??
Thorby over 5 years ago
That statue started off as a bronze statue of Jupiter and was “modified” later.
DanFlak over 5 years ago
Ah, one of the many rituals of the Catholic Church to distract people from the actual theology.
I remember as a child being forced to attend “venerations” where the host was placed in this ornately-adorned golden monstrosity (or was that a monstrance) while priests in elaborate vestments chanted in Latin while marching around shaking another device (whose name I cannot recall) dispensing incense.
Somehow that did not conjure up an image of how a first century wandering rabbi would worship God. Actually, upon recollection, it seems more like the setting for a seance.
gigagrouch over 5 years ago
“Know what to kiss, and when.”
Dani Rice over 5 years ago
One of my coworkers was a nurse and a Roman Catholic. Her daughter was graduating from high school and part of the ceremony involved kissing the archbishop’s ring. “I told her I didn’t care whose ring it was, go through the motions but don’t you DARE kiss it!”
DanFlak over 5 years ago
Both my sister and my wife went to the same nursing school (several years apart). I remember the first week each of them came home. Everything was “Gross Contamination”. In short, you couldn’t eat anything you touched with your hands. It makes you wonder how the human race survived the Paleolithic Era.
gcarlson over 5 years ago
I forget what temple in Lhasa (and am too lazy to dig out my notes) had a tablet inscribed with a treatment for some horrible disease. The superstitious came to believe that simply touching the tablet would cure the disease, and wore the inscription off.