… elle ne support pas les craintes pueriles que certaines d’entre nous auraient pour les insectes et autres animaux, elle tient absolument a ce qu’on se domine sur ce point; sur tous les domains il faut etre maitresse chez soi, sinon il faut renoncer a la saintete.
(a nun of Solesmes, on their first abbess)
Pants.
Laodicea 
October 27, 2010 at 9:26 pm
For N the Angry Christmas Tree:
She did not tolerate the childish fears which some of us had of insects and other animals, she maintained firmly (held to) that one should master oneself on this point: in all domains one must be mistress of oneself, otherwise one must give up on holiness.
October 29, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Ta!
October 29, 2010 at 4:09 pm
… says the frizzy-haired, half-asleep misshaped dumplin…
October 29, 2010 at 5:09 pm
frizzy-haired and half-asleep would fit most of the time, wouldn’t it? The misshaped dumpling is of course entirely out of place.
Are you also still working? My brain is absolutely dizzy, as I was staring at large excel sheets for hours on end. When oh when will the weekend arrive? And a long weekend it will be – holiday on monday for All Saints’ Day, yippee!