I have been tagged for the 1-2-3 Meme by Mark at Jesusmanifesto.com. The game is to grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 123. Find the 5th sentance and share the next 3 sentances with everyone. Then you tag five people.
My sentence is from Seasons of Celebration by Thomas Merton
Seasons of Celebration – p. 123, sentece # 5
Blessed and sanctified by the sign of the cross, the ashes become a “remedium salubre” (health-givng medicine) and they bring sanitas (wholeness,cleanness) to the body, as well as protection to the soul (animae tutelam), both of these availing for the remision of sins.
February 6, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] Eliacin tagged me with this fun meme: [...]
February 7, 2008 at 11:13 am
tagged..will play the game later
February 8, 2008 at 9:23 pm
[...] Eliacin tagged me (though actually Steve beat him to it), so here goes. Exclusion and Embrace was the closest book; here’s page 123, 5th-8th sentences: Forgiveness is no mere discharge of a victim’s angry resentment and no mere assuaging of a perpetrator’s remorseful anguish, one that demands no change of the perpetrator and no righting of wrongs. On the contrary: every act of forgiveness enthrones justice; it draws attention to its violation precisely by offering to forego its claims. Moreover, forgiveness provides a framework in which the quest for properly understood justice can be fruitfully pursued. [...]
February 12, 2008 at 11:16 pm
[...] February 12, 2008, 11:15 pm Filed under: culture, justice, neighborhood, race, urban eliacin tagged me with this meme, so i thought i’d play along. the instructions are to grab your [...]