The Lancastrians have arrived. Not as fat as I thought they'd be. Not all of them. Gonna practice my West Syriac because it looks more beautiful than east syriac which when I write it looks like spider scrawl but then there is this tendency. I hope I shall be so absorbed for three weeks I shall post nothing till then. But probably will pop back from time to time.
I hope we get to see a Thoma Christian site if only to purchase religious hardware. Though I have a theory that Mar Thoma is actually Joseph and that he didn't die at all. It's not as silly as you think if you take into account that Thomas Didymus is a nickname, meaning Twin the Twin.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
TVU
So TVU finally reply to the OIAHE and offer me a refundment of my fees. Some 1300 squid plus up to 250 squid in legal costs in return for not saying bad things about them oh and they'll drop the disciplinary proceedings against me. I did think how much 1500 squid is in rupiyah but since I had asked for over 60,000 euro although I did make fun of the offer as a deal no deal one. It just doesn't seem like they are taking this seriously. Some you buy some you discredit some you kill. You have the know the man you are dealing with. I am the one you discredit.
Good news though I am now a Master of West Syriac as well as East. Got out a library book on Jacob of Sarug. Couldn't really get very far no matter which way I held it up. Now Fr Geo has shown me the West Syriac alphabet, Estrangela is simple enough I am indeed master of the three levels, though will I be able to handle all this power.
Sri Aurobindo is progressing. Oh I forgot to email the ashram about the DD. Oh yeah this is India so when I gave the first Demand Draft to Gilbert to mail obviously that probably was another one to chalk down to experience. I have now discovered the post office and am a Lord of the Mail. Yep gonna read his Divine Life after the Gita exegesis, then on to his yoga. They say if you dilettante with his teaching you can become possessed of a raksha and be destroyed left only as a hollow shell. Last night I dreamt I was Sri Aurobindo. Today I do not know if I am Sri Aurobindo pretending to be a pretentious git or.
So sent some mail off to a few. Will probably try again in a while. For now waiting for the Lancastrians. October not far off. Have to book a train to Pondicherry and flights to Sri Lanka. It will just happen mind. Now to email the Ashram. Then some reading till lunch then more reading till Tiffin best meal of the day. Though I got a close look at the birds on the way back from Syriac. They must be flying over the waters and they look more like eagles close up, have that eagle cry/call too.
Oh I did write to the woman but only a nice letter and some days it's easier to move onwards and upwards. I think Sri Aurobindo syriac and pondicherry etc may help.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Sri Aurobindo
That Aurobindo guy is quite a find. He dismissed the Mahatma as a bit of a dilettante. Definitely worth a bit more of a read and a visit to Pondicherry. I am in a really good mood now. So off to do more reading and stuff. Don't really need the Lancastrians bit like buses aren't they.
The Blind ride piggy back on the Lame
So the blind chick at the end says it's a Kannada poem I'll try describe it for you in English too but it's difficult to capture the poetry. The woman was the poetry, there is something not knowing how amazing you are even if it's in a Tony Blair way that is so. Hell yeah I cried.
We have to persuade the Blind and the Lame to switch places.
Dah dah!
Now I am a happy Chauvinist and several things strike me. Ok so first can't go blaming the Indians or the Pakis. Globalisation has its part. Financing a lifestyle we cannot afford. Doesn't sound so oriental now does it. Combat greed and return to the Categorical Imperative. The lazy male academic put it, we need as men to rediscover our desire. He may not have meant the Song of Songs but God means stop lusting after things only, start desiring people. In the end a woman is more than her fishnet stockings. The image he went with is the Ambassador Car, the standard boxey safe expensive unit that every country has as a boring family car. It encases the undead on their way to the new temple the shopping mall for conspicious expenditure.
I am not buying a computer and I'll take the train to Pondicherry first because I know I am here to dream dreams of sanctity and anyway you don't get to see a film on a short journey, plus the food isn't so good bogawful snacks. Finally got a fast in last day mind. The first time I tried it was the Feast day of St Alphonsa. First Indian Saint, real problem with canon law that one, she doesn't have a valid baptism certificate. Loads of theories why she doesn't some jurisprudential process won out I think it's known as His Holiness is waiting and he'd really like to announce it before his India trip ends. We had rice with beans and raisins and lemon tea. You really have to understand what a feast is here. Because what you eat in the West is obscene. What you throw away is obscene. I may think these guys are a bunch of trogs from the middle twentieth century though fast improving give them ten years they'll all be in mini-skirts drinking Jack D with original coca cola but anyway you are all very bad people in the West and that includes the good ones. Once I have rejoined and rejuvenated my long lost eparchy I may start writing terrible apocalyptic pamphlets against you in East Syriac. Which reminds me can't get an ID card because I am a foreigner. Yeah and you make that sound like it's a bad thing. So plan is get the cousins to pay the DVK boys sterling 1400 pa. They let me take a three year licentiate in Oriental Canon Law. I did think a year in sprituality and counselling but those environments are unreal. They may appear to be comforting love bunnies and restore the body and soul in a non-judgemental cocoon of affirmation but I prefer to keep it real and do Oriental Canon Law. In the sense that it has no purpose and even in the sixteenth century when it might have meant something it would have been illegal because of Roman Rite dominance and the Ultramontanist Padroado movement. But just some of the terms of Oriental Catholicism enough to make you believe it really is a gnostic system that will one day reveal the beatific vision if only you remain sincere in your insane obsessions. Oh yeah so one trip to Sri Lanka probably fly for that one in October and then in January send off for OCI because there is no way the Indian Government is gonna give a student visa to study Oriental Canon Law because you can't fool them there ain't no such thing.
Oh and before you say why don't you just bribe someone to get your ID. It's not that easy it's like getting a knighthood back home. Plus although I'd look dashing with my new photos. They are letting me take out bookses anyway. So I just go with the flow. And if I get the OCI I get a whole new passport that isn't really a passport, Indian citizenship without any of the downside like getting arrested by cops or having to do military service I am sure they'd all prefer one if they could have them here.
The good news is any widow here is gonna think me a godsend. Now it will still irritate me if she insists on no dowry, no burning after marriage, no pestering for dowry after marriage, no burning after etc. In the same way as a NO SPITTING sign just pisses me off in any restaurant it just makes me want to spit. So that's good news although some of these widows are a little too feminist for me. Ok so there was this one feminist in red willowy tall lissome I dunno so most of them are but this one had eyes and the face and the hair. Thank God I didn't talk to her. I need to lessen the lust and increase the desire. I hope the Lancastrians will help with that. Trying to hassle the OIAHE for a judgement but the wheels grind slowly.
Ok in defence of why has India killed more female children than Adolf Hitler killed Jews Slavs Poles etc in his death camps. Because as far as she knows not having three inches of boneless meat is not a defect that needs correcting by abortion or infanticide. And it's not the oh the feminist way is one of peace and love offering a new paradigm where punishment is not because it can't be my intense counselling/psychology training. As Homer Simpson put is if we were meant to be vegetarians why are animals made of meat. And prescinding for a moment she may have been quite playful in the whole boneless meat metaphor, if she didn't want to be hurtful she would have said six inches at the very least.
And for the record you Britishers murdered 20 Million Indians and Pakistanis in the concentration camps run by Churchill during world war II to supress the authentic and just cause of Indian Independence and if anyone would like to challenge that figure do so in France you vile racist holocaust denier. You are a coward Sir and damn your eyes.
But my God these wimin are beautiful. I felt on balance it would be better not to destroy that image by engaging in unsolicited conversation with them. Although one did ask if I were Dr chakrachingra something and it's nice to know that the beard and hair still pull it off even in torn jeans and plain shirt. Who needs a blue sari when God and his mother have given me this beard. Though on the wedding next day. Velankani Barber here I goes. Oh and there is still time for Tiffin. Life is ok I give it a 8 out of ten today.
We have to persuade the Blind and the Lame to switch places.
Dah dah!
Now I am a happy Chauvinist and several things strike me. Ok so first can't go blaming the Indians or the Pakis. Globalisation has its part. Financing a lifestyle we cannot afford. Doesn't sound so oriental now does it. Combat greed and return to the Categorical Imperative. The lazy male academic put it, we need as men to rediscover our desire. He may not have meant the Song of Songs but God means stop lusting after things only, start desiring people. In the end a woman is more than her fishnet stockings. The image he went with is the Ambassador Car, the standard boxey safe expensive unit that every country has as a boring family car. It encases the undead on their way to the new temple the shopping mall for conspicious expenditure.
I am not buying a computer and I'll take the train to Pondicherry first because I know I am here to dream dreams of sanctity and anyway you don't get to see a film on a short journey, plus the food isn't so good bogawful snacks. Finally got a fast in last day mind. The first time I tried it was the Feast day of St Alphonsa. First Indian Saint, real problem with canon law that one, she doesn't have a valid baptism certificate. Loads of theories why she doesn't some jurisprudential process won out I think it's known as His Holiness is waiting and he'd really like to announce it before his India trip ends. We had rice with beans and raisins and lemon tea. You really have to understand what a feast is here. Because what you eat in the West is obscene. What you throw away is obscene. I may think these guys are a bunch of trogs from the middle twentieth century though fast improving give them ten years they'll all be in mini-skirts drinking Jack D with original coca cola but anyway you are all very bad people in the West and that includes the good ones. Once I have rejoined and rejuvenated my long lost eparchy I may start writing terrible apocalyptic pamphlets against you in East Syriac. Which reminds me can't get an ID card because I am a foreigner. Yeah and you make that sound like it's a bad thing. So plan is get the cousins to pay the DVK boys sterling 1400 pa. They let me take a three year licentiate in Oriental Canon Law. I did think a year in sprituality and counselling but those environments are unreal. They may appear to be comforting love bunnies and restore the body and soul in a non-judgemental cocoon of affirmation but I prefer to keep it real and do Oriental Canon Law. In the sense that it has no purpose and even in the sixteenth century when it might have meant something it would have been illegal because of Roman Rite dominance and the Ultramontanist Padroado movement. But just some of the terms of Oriental Catholicism enough to make you believe it really is a gnostic system that will one day reveal the beatific vision if only you remain sincere in your insane obsessions. Oh yeah so one trip to Sri Lanka probably fly for that one in October and then in January send off for OCI because there is no way the Indian Government is gonna give a student visa to study Oriental Canon Law because you can't fool them there ain't no such thing.
Oh and before you say why don't you just bribe someone to get your ID. It's not that easy it's like getting a knighthood back home. Plus although I'd look dashing with my new photos. They are letting me take out bookses anyway. So I just go with the flow. And if I get the OCI I get a whole new passport that isn't really a passport, Indian citizenship without any of the downside like getting arrested by cops or having to do military service I am sure they'd all prefer one if they could have them here.
The good news is any widow here is gonna think me a godsend. Now it will still irritate me if she insists on no dowry, no burning after marriage, no pestering for dowry after marriage, no burning after etc. In the same way as a NO SPITTING sign just pisses me off in any restaurant it just makes me want to spit. So that's good news although some of these widows are a little too feminist for me. Ok so there was this one feminist in red willowy tall lissome I dunno so most of them are but this one had eyes and the face and the hair. Thank God I didn't talk to her. I need to lessen the lust and increase the desire. I hope the Lancastrians will help with that. Trying to hassle the OIAHE for a judgement but the wheels grind slowly.
Ok in defence of why has India killed more female children than Adolf Hitler killed Jews Slavs Poles etc in his death camps. Because as far as she knows not having three inches of boneless meat is not a defect that needs correcting by abortion or infanticide. And it's not the oh the feminist way is one of peace and love offering a new paradigm where punishment is not because it can't be my intense counselling/psychology training. As Homer Simpson put is if we were meant to be vegetarians why are animals made of meat. And prescinding for a moment she may have been quite playful in the whole boneless meat metaphor, if she didn't want to be hurtful she would have said six inches at the very least.
And for the record you Britishers murdered 20 Million Indians and Pakistanis in the concentration camps run by Churchill during world war II to supress the authentic and just cause of Indian Independence and if anyone would like to challenge that figure do so in France you vile racist holocaust denier. You are a coward Sir and damn your eyes.
But my God these wimin are beautiful. I felt on balance it would be better not to destroy that image by engaging in unsolicited conversation with them. Although one did ask if I were Dr chakrachingra something and it's nice to know that the beard and hair still pull it off even in torn jeans and plain shirt. Who needs a blue sari when God and his mother have given me this beard. Though on the wedding next day. Velankani Barber here I goes. Oh and there is still time for Tiffin. Life is ok I give it a 8 out of ten today.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Accidental death of a bride
I am not one to defend the inalienable rights of feminists. Bah humbug if you ask me bunch of whiney wimin to deface beautiful paintings like the Rokeby Venus mainly because they are overweight carrot eating lesbians and are just jealous and only got the vote because they planned to kill all of his Majesty's gee-gees. And I always figured I could probably kill one homeless person/failed asylum seeker or one of that ilk and who would care, or as I would put it they'd give me a bloody medal. But there are limits.
What is the point in boasting about one nuclear submarine. Akula class which is Russian and therefore bound to get blown out of the water by the first american sub it comes across. Especially since it will take two years to train the sub-mariners to play with it properly when oh I should explain got pressganged into attending this morning's daughters of fire seminar, a people's court on dowry and other related violence against women.
Fuck me. No Fuck me. 100 unnatural deaths reported every month in Bangalore mainly of women and exploding fucking stoves. Fucking exploding fucking stoves. Now I believe the rational historico-critical method having moved from the modernist solution of making better stoves, to teaching households better health and safety protocols well apart from encouraging us not to say fucking.
The point being as I put it to Abraham and he is a really nice pentecostal preacher and he was agreeing with me how bad things are here, was that I could in front of the whole DVK assembly beat to death a dalit girl and nothing would happen to me. So back to the bartered brides accidental deaths, my God they are pretty but they have a terrible habit of burning themselves to death over faulty cooking appliances. So at first the husband's family covered her in tumeric and then arranged for a fast funeral.
I was thinking of a new Tollywood/French (with East Syriac subtitles) series of CSI India. We wouldn't have to pay any copyright to the yanks because it would not involve clever science johnnies with lab equipment examining crime scenes for threads either cotton or minute parts of fucking DNA. Because the first thing you have to do as an Indian CSI is negotiate a fucking bribe. They had brought in a law to force post mortems on all unnatural deaths filed with the police. So option one don't file the death report with the police. Option two wait for the post mortem johnnie to ask for a facilitation fee and what sort of report you would like. Then again you have the lone honest post-fucking-mortemist. Now his problem is that he is a fucking stupid ignorant fucking Indian so the limits of his skill are for death where it appears to have been by hanging. Cause of Death: Asphixiation.
And for when the bride was burnt to death, oh and this sounds a bit more technical than just Death by burning to death, it's Shock caused by burns. I'd be fucking shocked if someone tried to fucking murder me for me money.
Now the greed part I get. It's a way to get a fast buck. And whereas I admit to having some residual pissed-offness with my cousins and my brother but more with my cousins coz I figure my brother has two wives three daughters and a mistress to pay off and he is always going to be in debt, where was I. Yep I am going to insist on 700 squid per term to be paid by the cousins (out of my money) in addition to other expenses to the Temple of Wisdom in the Garden of Earthly delights. That will pay my keep plus provide for a few scholarships.
Where was I. God this place is just fucking. I mean why didn't hillary fucking clinton ask for basic human rights to be improved in India before signing her fucking deal with them. They used to hassle the Chinese and the Russians about it. Now I can understand why you might say but Dezie why are you getting all excited. It doesn't affect you. And I guess it does confirm how corrupt and how little human life is valued her. Why I am studying their spiritual systems again. But they don't mean us. They mean poor people. And although dowry crimes are an equal opportunities killer it's still nicer having money and being a Brahmin or a foreigner.
Now ok the experts giving evidence at the court went with the usual long words to show how clever and educated they are. They want us to dream a new imaginary. To replace the public patriarchal system of jurisprudence with a personal social vision where reparation and harmony. Allow the tears of the oppressed to proclaim and reclaim yadayada. Now the four women who spoke two broke down a bit towards the end. Three were mothers one was a sister obviously the dead cannot speak. Tamil, Kannada and whatever they speak in West Bengal and Orissa. A father was replaced by his wife as he was critically ill. And a mother replaced by a sibling as she had been killed in an RTA. I stayed till they finished speaking. Because I felt I should stay.
Hey a man's gotta eat. The seminar is for Christ's University a posh offshoot of DVK. Their lunch break is from 1.20 -2.20. DVK's from 12.30- 1.30. Moved though I was I still felt I should not return so I could partake of Tiffin. But Tiffin ain't all that. I am going to go back for the next sessions and just get a little depressed.
What a fucking awful way to live. Seriously it really doesn't make any fucking sense. And no-one here is really shocked. Change will not happen quickly. It's not just the wimin who are treasured/despised. It's also the Dalits and Tribals. Well the Will will go to the Carmelites and half of the money has to go SCs or Tribals with preference to graduates of the Prema Seva Ashram of Nellikuduru and the other half to others with preference to women. I'll set that in a separate letter as a canon 1300 obligation upon the prior general. If you put clauses into a Will just leaves greed too many opportunities.
Fuck me greed will blind you and destroy others and your own soul. How can a people so beautiful be so fucking evil.
What is the point in boasting about one nuclear submarine. Akula class which is Russian and therefore bound to get blown out of the water by the first american sub it comes across. Especially since it will take two years to train the sub-mariners to play with it properly when oh I should explain got pressganged into attending this morning's daughters of fire seminar, a people's court on dowry and other related violence against women.
Fuck me. No Fuck me. 100 unnatural deaths reported every month in Bangalore mainly of women and exploding fucking stoves. Fucking exploding fucking stoves. Now I believe the rational historico-critical method having moved from the modernist solution of making better stoves, to teaching households better health and safety protocols well apart from encouraging us not to say fucking.
The point being as I put it to Abraham and he is a really nice pentecostal preacher and he was agreeing with me how bad things are here, was that I could in front of the whole DVK assembly beat to death a dalit girl and nothing would happen to me. So back to the bartered brides accidental deaths, my God they are pretty but they have a terrible habit of burning themselves to death over faulty cooking appliances. So at first the husband's family covered her in tumeric and then arranged for a fast funeral.
I was thinking of a new Tollywood/French (with East Syriac subtitles) series of CSI India. We wouldn't have to pay any copyright to the yanks because it would not involve clever science johnnies with lab equipment examining crime scenes for threads either cotton or minute parts of fucking DNA. Because the first thing you have to do as an Indian CSI is negotiate a fucking bribe. They had brought in a law to force post mortems on all unnatural deaths filed with the police. So option one don't file the death report with the police. Option two wait for the post mortem johnnie to ask for a facilitation fee and what sort of report you would like. Then again you have the lone honest post-fucking-mortemist. Now his problem is that he is a fucking stupid ignorant fucking Indian so the limits of his skill are for death where it appears to have been by hanging. Cause of Death: Asphixiation.
And for when the bride was burnt to death, oh and this sounds a bit more technical than just Death by burning to death, it's Shock caused by burns. I'd be fucking shocked if someone tried to fucking murder me for me money.
Now the greed part I get. It's a way to get a fast buck. And whereas I admit to having some residual pissed-offness with my cousins and my brother but more with my cousins coz I figure my brother has two wives three daughters and a mistress to pay off and he is always going to be in debt, where was I. Yep I am going to insist on 700 squid per term to be paid by the cousins (out of my money) in addition to other expenses to the Temple of Wisdom in the Garden of Earthly delights. That will pay my keep plus provide for a few scholarships.
Where was I. God this place is just fucking. I mean why didn't hillary fucking clinton ask for basic human rights to be improved in India before signing her fucking deal with them. They used to hassle the Chinese and the Russians about it. Now I can understand why you might say but Dezie why are you getting all excited. It doesn't affect you. And I guess it does confirm how corrupt and how little human life is valued her. Why I am studying their spiritual systems again. But they don't mean us. They mean poor people. And although dowry crimes are an equal opportunities killer it's still nicer having money and being a Brahmin or a foreigner.
Now ok the experts giving evidence at the court went with the usual long words to show how clever and educated they are. They want us to dream a new imaginary. To replace the public patriarchal system of jurisprudence with a personal social vision where reparation and harmony. Allow the tears of the oppressed to proclaim and reclaim yadayada. Now the four women who spoke two broke down a bit towards the end. Three were mothers one was a sister obviously the dead cannot speak. Tamil, Kannada and whatever they speak in West Bengal and Orissa. A father was replaced by his wife as he was critically ill. And a mother replaced by a sibling as she had been killed in an RTA. I stayed till they finished speaking. Because I felt I should stay.
Hey a man's gotta eat. The seminar is for Christ's University a posh offshoot of DVK. Their lunch break is from 1.20 -2.20. DVK's from 12.30- 1.30. Moved though I was I still felt I should not return so I could partake of Tiffin. But Tiffin ain't all that. I am going to go back for the next sessions and just get a little depressed.
What a fucking awful way to live. Seriously it really doesn't make any fucking sense. And no-one here is really shocked. Change will not happen quickly. It's not just the wimin who are treasured/despised. It's also the Dalits and Tribals. Well the Will will go to the Carmelites and half of the money has to go SCs or Tribals with preference to graduates of the Prema Seva Ashram of Nellikuduru and the other half to others with preference to women. I'll set that in a separate letter as a canon 1300 obligation upon the prior general. If you put clauses into a Will just leaves greed too many opportunities.
Fuck me greed will blind you and destroy others and your own soul. How can a people so beautiful be so fucking evil.
Monday, July 27, 2009
low flying
Hopefully the course starts next week. I am looking forward to the arrival of the Lancastrians. I think I am getting a little bored. Finished off the Chaldeo-Indian Liturgy introductory course. Possibly last East Syriac class tomorrow, maybe if I can get a hold of Pschitta. But travelling around a little will be good for August. Stop me dwelling upon the past. I hope Gilbert sent off the letter to Pondicherry. I shall get some envelopes and write home to those with no email I know of.
I did notice the blue saried nuns, what I noticed, I write. They have blue bras. It's a tropical country and all, but if they really are Jesuit inspire Order of St Aloysius and that needs to be confirmed isn't it enough that they are intelligent, overstudious, willowy, lissome, do they have to wear blue bras visible under the blue choli. Is it really necessary sister. To think the original Jesuits were so dangerous they had to be supressed. Now they wear blue bras.
Which reminds me to business. Apparently the Syro-Malankara are not happy with just Archbishop as a head, a third level ESI. And whatever they say it's a minor archbishop not a major one anyway they want to have a Catholicos as their head. I think maybe I should rethink the whole idea of a dual patriarchy for India. The Goan one is a minor patriarchy which means it doesn't really count. What I think India deserves is a Major Patriarchy, Cragannore where the man came Gate of All India, to honour the Mar Toma Nazranis, and just leave it as a Sede Vacante. And to this end I shall seek to become a member of a non-extant Eparchy. Just need to find one or let it find me. The interweb is not so good for things like this you just end up finding something interesting about krill.
Oh and another thing, dem neo-Cats were right about there not being an offertory not really as part of a valid liturgy. Begins to make me wonder, maybe they aren't as crazy as they first sounded. No more news on Widows, pastries or French Indians. Last lesson in East Syriac tomorrow and still no sign of a library card. But I find myself comforted after all this typing.
I did notice the blue saried nuns, what I noticed, I write. They have blue bras. It's a tropical country and all, but if they really are Jesuit inspire Order of St Aloysius and that needs to be confirmed isn't it enough that they are intelligent, overstudious, willowy, lissome, do they have to wear blue bras visible under the blue choli. Is it really necessary sister. To think the original Jesuits were so dangerous they had to be supressed. Now they wear blue bras.
Which reminds me to business. Apparently the Syro-Malankara are not happy with just Archbishop as a head, a third level ESI. And whatever they say it's a minor archbishop not a major one anyway they want to have a Catholicos as their head. I think maybe I should rethink the whole idea of a dual patriarchy for India. The Goan one is a minor patriarchy which means it doesn't really count. What I think India deserves is a Major Patriarchy, Cragannore where the man came Gate of All India, to honour the Mar Toma Nazranis, and just leave it as a Sede Vacante. And to this end I shall seek to become a member of a non-extant Eparchy. Just need to find one or let it find me. The interweb is not so good for things like this you just end up finding something interesting about krill.
Oh and another thing, dem neo-Cats were right about there not being an offertory not really as part of a valid liturgy. Begins to make me wonder, maybe they aren't as crazy as they first sounded. No more news on Widows, pastries or French Indians. Last lesson in East Syriac tomorrow and still no sign of a library card. But I find myself comforted after all this typing.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
2 Solutions
There are several orders of nuns and religious sisters studying at the Temple of Wisdom in the Garden of Earthly Delights, Carmelites, Mother Teresa's lot, and you can see how the habit has morphed from western enclosed order with wimples to a more indian style of sari. There is one group in particular. On her own yeah she is ok looking but when you see four of them walk in they look like an order of supermodels. Skyblue saris, but with designer cuts and no veil. Not sure what they are the solution to but they will definitely do. And until then I am sure I can come up with a few things.
Second solution and this is to restore make anew the Patriachate of the Gate of India with a Syro-Malabar Catholicos working in synergetic parallel to the Patriarch of the East Indies in Goa. Fasting on Fridays. To start I'll just skip evening meal. Skipping Tiffin is just well open to pelagianistic confusion and come on. This morning's homily all about fasting. The boys really go to town with their homilies when they get a chance. I am not entirely convinced they are not just out on the tickle neither.
Problem with the hierarchical set up familiar to those who understand either the Church or Stamp Clubs or how groups work, the Roman Rite and Eastern Rite Churches are divided geographically. If you live in Goa you are in a Roman Rite area regardless of your baptism. In Kerala you are in a Syro-Malabar jurisdiction. The problem is the boys won't play together. For now the Roman Rite Archbishop of Bangalore allows the Syro-Malabar priests to come but the DVK is listed as a Roman Rite Institute and they remain at his disposal.
Now if they could accept the concept of breathing with two lungs, that Indians especially can recover their twin heritage by attending liturgies in both styles, and learning the history of both rites, the theology spirituality and styles of admin. For the latter the Syro-malabar have yogams where temporal authority reverts to the laics with an Archdeacon, and spritual authority is given to the Bishops and priests. Ah but people never share their toys. First request made to us by our parents and it never really seems fair.
There may be a way of combining the sky-blue willowy lissom sari nuns and fasting to establish this dual patriarchy. What I suggest is that whatever the rite the alternate is also offered, at every level, so in seminaries and institutes and parishes. We will still have to learn to play nicely and share toys. Essentially the Patriarch of Goa gets ultimate power over the Roman Rite priests and the 22 Eastern Rite Churches have ultimate power over theirs but all are free to wander about throughout all of India at the request of any local Bishop. Each diocese having two Bishops one Roman and one Oriental.
On that history thing. I read almost first day an intro to a book stating that you'd have to be expert in sanskrit syriac latin greek eastern and western theology and history to begin to analyse the source material to prove that Mar Toma the Apostle first converted the Indians. So the author suggested I take his word for it. In the past western theologians had disagreed now they are coming around. The truth is more interesting. It's not quite the dossier but it seems the evidence trail goes cold in the fourth century AD at Edessa. Before then it's circumstantial. But if you think about it so is the evidence for the historical Jesus, and the Battle of Hastings. I am gonna read up a fairly recent book summarizing all the arguments. It will make a nice break from liturgy before the three week course begins next Sunday.
Oh yeah there was a widow. Doubt she makes pastries and her eldest son was my age, so I took that as not the sign of the times. Fr Jose has offered to take me around various sites the CMI run here and after initially thinking he might be serious he probably meant it in an Indian way to make myself feel at home, which until they turn this place into a university, which is the what they said they want to do at the beginning of that Bible Study course, I shall. After that I am off. Temple of Wisdom in a garden of earthly delights with a blue sari'd model collection is more me.
Second solution and this is to restore make anew the Patriachate of the Gate of India with a Syro-Malabar Catholicos working in synergetic parallel to the Patriarch of the East Indies in Goa. Fasting on Fridays. To start I'll just skip evening meal. Skipping Tiffin is just well open to pelagianistic confusion and come on. This morning's homily all about fasting. The boys really go to town with their homilies when they get a chance. I am not entirely convinced they are not just out on the tickle neither.
Problem with the hierarchical set up familiar to those who understand either the Church or Stamp Clubs or how groups work, the Roman Rite and Eastern Rite Churches are divided geographically. If you live in Goa you are in a Roman Rite area regardless of your baptism. In Kerala you are in a Syro-Malabar jurisdiction. The problem is the boys won't play together. For now the Roman Rite Archbishop of Bangalore allows the Syro-Malabar priests to come but the DVK is listed as a Roman Rite Institute and they remain at his disposal.
Now if they could accept the concept of breathing with two lungs, that Indians especially can recover their twin heritage by attending liturgies in both styles, and learning the history of both rites, the theology spirituality and styles of admin. For the latter the Syro-malabar have yogams where temporal authority reverts to the laics with an Archdeacon, and spritual authority is given to the Bishops and priests. Ah but people never share their toys. First request made to us by our parents and it never really seems fair.
There may be a way of combining the sky-blue willowy lissom sari nuns and fasting to establish this dual patriarchy. What I suggest is that whatever the rite the alternate is also offered, at every level, so in seminaries and institutes and parishes. We will still have to learn to play nicely and share toys. Essentially the Patriarch of Goa gets ultimate power over the Roman Rite priests and the 22 Eastern Rite Churches have ultimate power over theirs but all are free to wander about throughout all of India at the request of any local Bishop. Each diocese having two Bishops one Roman and one Oriental.
On that history thing. I read almost first day an intro to a book stating that you'd have to be expert in sanskrit syriac latin greek eastern and western theology and history to begin to analyse the source material to prove that Mar Toma the Apostle first converted the Indians. So the author suggested I take his word for it. In the past western theologians had disagreed now they are coming around. The truth is more interesting. It's not quite the dossier but it seems the evidence trail goes cold in the fourth century AD at Edessa. Before then it's circumstantial. But if you think about it so is the evidence for the historical Jesus, and the Battle of Hastings. I am gonna read up a fairly recent book summarizing all the arguments. It will make a nice break from liturgy before the three week course begins next Sunday.
Oh yeah there was a widow. Doubt she makes pastries and her eldest son was my age, so I took that as not the sign of the times. Fr Jose has offered to take me around various sites the CMI run here and after initially thinking he might be serious he probably meant it in an Indian way to make myself feel at home, which until they turn this place into a university, which is the what they said they want to do at the beginning of that Bible Study course, I shall. After that I am off. Temple of Wisdom in a garden of earthly delights with a blue sari'd model collection is more me.
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