tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post1026901310867322331..comments2023-12-24T11:20:38.708+00:00Comments on The Muniment Room: 1890 And All ThatTtonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-43269877665231613462010-03-18T21:32:14.530+00:002010-03-18T21:32:14.530+00:00Probably the reformers had been , like me, prevatI...Probably the reformers had been , like me, prevatII altar boys, tho who, unlike me , had gone on to greater and higher things .. such as pruning calendars in the name of reform.<br /><br />I don't know if having Italian priests indirectly in the diocese and outof it at the same time really added much - anyhow, twas the altarboy's job, at least in our parish, about 5-10 mins say b4 aiding the priest to vest 4 mass, along with cruets and candles and sichlike fun, to set up all the bits in the missals for all the readings, etc , according to a big book with small print and two smaller ones.And lotser latin.<br />Point: I often got it wrong to the PPs considerable irritation ,fond tho I think he was of me, and generally encouraging. (More than once even Sunday masses had different readings on the same day which I have been authoritatively told by one of these bods older than me who was born years later than me that this was not so.)<br />Since much can be explained (and, better, excused) by traumatic events in one's youth, there you have my theory : the refromers pruned rather than replacing with better, and homogenized, in some sort of unsconscious revenge from their altar boy days, some sort of acolytic penis envy or lack of potty training. <br />Wanna bet?Mike Cliffsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06405021835510775527noreply@blogger.com