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Old April 14th 07, 01:23 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Macaroni
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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.

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Jan in MN


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Old April 14th 07, 05:38 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Not Likely
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"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

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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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Old April 14th 07, 05:44 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Not Likely
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Default Gemini: v-e-r-y OFF topic, a query about Catholic statues

"YarnWright" wrote in message
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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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Old April 14th 07, 09:28 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Not Likely
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Default 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


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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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Old April 20th 07, 02:06 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Carey N.
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Default Gemini: v-e-r-y OFF topic, a query about Catholic statues


"YarnWright" wrote in message
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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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