tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post8077028896455711356..comments2023-06-16T16:08:23.446+01:00Comments on Edinburgh Housewife: Domestic Priestess Mrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-69581036085176061832015-11-11T15:05:48.829+00:002015-11-11T15:05:48.829+00:00Lovely post! This year, for the first time, we'...Lovely post! This year, for the first time, we're not doing the 20-hour drive (or 2.5 hour expensive holiday-season flight) to my parents' house, nor the 5-hour international flight to my husband's parents' home, so it's my first time being "in charge" of Christmas in my own home. It will be strange, but it's comforting to think of the ways in which I can participate in some of the same traditions as always.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08435555064199584507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-25433833315637290502015-11-10T23:35:02.160+00:002015-11-10T23:35:02.160+00:00There have been some great lines here lately! I pa...There have been some great lines here lately! I particularly liked: "..sacerdotal hinting that without serious prayer the departed would sizzle under Purgatory's grill like a toasted cheese sandwich."<br /><br />One quick thought I had (unfortunately a bit tangential to the main theme of today's post) is that while Western Christians might rightly seem a bit wimpy when it comes to traditions of fasting, in a general way we might be described as tougher when it comes to the value of continence. For example, the Roman Catholic Church is the only one that categorically requires a celibate priesthood, and Roman Catholics have more vocational "options" for a life of celibacy. E.g., we have active religious life and a variety of lay ecclesiastical movements in addition to cloistered contemplative life, whereas consecrated life in the Eastern Churches tend to focus primarily on one "flavor" of traditional monasticism, Also, Eastern Orthodox Churches do allow actual ecclesiastical divorce and remarriage in some cases, which of course does not happen in Catholic Churches!Sponsa Christihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07520407168481380210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-55237612835121704652015-11-10T20:22:16.709+00:002015-11-10T20:22:16.709+00:00:) I love some of the lines you've written lat...:) I love some of the lines you've written lately. I am totally dying for the chance to work 'You're not an impoverished Moabite widow with a mother-in-law to feed' and 'adolescent carpet beetles' into a conversation. :) booklovernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-30611418576837712822015-11-10T17:40:11.168+00:002015-11-10T17:40:11.168+00:00"Tradition is a form of time-travel..." ..."Tradition is a form of time-travel..." - Yes, yes, yes! A masterful paragraph; spot on.Domestic Divanoreply@blogger.com