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Gemini: v-e-r-y OFF topic, a query about Catholic statues
Oh, mom says her church, St. Stanislas Kostka, had the official *letterhead of St. Stash's*, and that one was in northern Wisc. Noreen, Just what were they stash-ing: souls?! ;-)) -- Carey in MA How about money. Isn't that what churches always want? ;-) Forgive me if I offended anybody. -- Jan in MN |
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Gemini: v-e-r-y OFF topic, a query about Catholic statues
"YarnWright" wrote in message
... YarnWright spun a FINE 'yarn': YarnWright spun a FINE 'yarn': Not Likely spun a FINE 'yarn': I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, and never heard of this superstition (and my Mom was from an Irish background and was very superstitious) until I moved into this house 3 1/2 years ago and the neighbour (a Dutch Roman Catholic) was trying to sell her house... she mentioned it to me then. She also said something about painting her door yellow to boost the sale of her house. Nothing to do with the statue, but a completely different superstition. Personally I find it disrespectful to bury a statue of any saint. By the way... although you may not have meant it as such, I also find it disrespectful to call St Joseph "St Joe" just as I do not like to hear some people call St Anthony "St Tony". Unless you lived back when they did and knew them personally (which I highly doubt that anyone shortened names back then anyway), I don't think it is very nice to abbreviate someone's (most especially a saint's) name to make him/her sound like they are your buddy. Just my opinion! Gemini end quoted Gem, Sorry, didn't mean to offend, but gotta tell ya, our church,the one I grew up in, honest to god, was St' Joe's. NOT St. Joesph's. St. JOE'S. Noreen AND, maybe it was a Chicago thing, but the church my Dad grew up in was not St. Patrick's, but St. Paddy's, honest to god, AND the church my uncle Lefty grew up in was St. Aggie's NOT St. Agnes's! Just my two cents, Noreen Oh, mom says her church, St. Stanislas Kostka, had the official *letterhead of St. Stash's*, and that one was in northern Wisc. end quoted OH! Gem, I DO agree about burying seeming sacriledge. (My mother, to this day, cringes when a loaf of bread is upside down, she feels the "lord" is upside down when you do that.....) Silly, eh? Noreen I didn't mean to sound pious or anything, I am far from that. I honestly never heard of any church abbreviating the names of the Saints... and always cringe when I hear it. About your Mom and the bread... I *vaguely* remember my own Mom saying something about that, but her main thing was if bread fell on the floor, she always said "Someone belonging to me (ie family) is hungry. ;o) As for religious superstitions... she hung the rosary on the clothesline on my wedding day so it wouldn't rain... and it didn't, even though the sky was very heavy with rain clouds most of the day. I remember Father Boyer grinning at her when she told him... he said his own mother used to do the same thing. ;o) That is the *only* religious superstition that has been done in our family though. *hugs* Gem |
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Gemini: v-e-r-y OFF topic, a query about Catholic statues
"YarnWright" wrote in message
... OH! Gem, I DO agree about burying seeming sacriledge. (My mother, to this day, cringes when a loaf of bread is upside down, she feels the "lord" is upside down when you do that.....) Silly, eh? Noreen You know... the bread thing is likely because in the church bread is thought of as the body of Christ, hence the communion host (flat bread wafers). So your Mom and all the others before her obviously got it from that. ) *hugs* Gem |
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Gemini: v-e-r-y OFF topic, a query about Catholic statues
"YarnWright" wrote in message
... Not Likely spun a FINE 'yarn': "YarnWright" wrote in message ... OH! Gem, I DO agree about burying seeming sacriledge. (My mother, to this day, cringes when a loaf of bread is upside down, she feels the "lord" is upside down when you do that.....) Silly, eh? Noreen You know... the bread thing is likely because in the church bread is thought of as the body of Christ, hence the communion host (flat bread wafers). So your Mom and all the others before her obviously got it from that. ) *hugs* Gem end quoted Not Likely. . .(Gem) I think you're correct! Although, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Communion bread, or WAFERS made from unleavened bread?? Just wondering... Noreen I've never made it, so I'm not positive *giggle*... but I'm *pretty* sure it is. Of course that links back to Jerusalem too, where they did/do use unleavened bread. Everything starts somewhere, doesn't it?... and it usually ends up linking everyone (no matter what beliefs we hold) together. ;o) *hugs* Gem |
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Gemini: v-e-r-y OFF topic, a query about Catholic statues
"YarnWright" wrote in message ... Macaroni (whom I normally ignore) spun a FINE 'yarn' and I had to reply in kind: Carey asked Just what were they stash-ing: souls?! ;-)) -- Carey in MA How about money. Isn't that what churches always want? ;-) Forgive me if I offended anybody. None taken. In fact, for once we agree (Church's/Money) If you look at my response to Carey, Stash is pronouned StAHsh/StOsh, so St. Stash's had nothing to do with stAshes. Stash is a Polish nickname for Stanley, and Stanslaus is the full Polish name for Stanley. N. Noreen, I just saw this explanation(for some reason your original response to me didn't appear on my PC; gremlins, I guess). The "a" sounding like an "o" I hadn't known. TTFN, Carey in MA |
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