Brian Pessaro has a new piece up at Godspy:
“But if you perform corporal mortification for religious reasons, to achieve some spiritual good, you’re an oddball. To borrow an analogy from Boston College professor Peter Kreeft and give it a twist, if I were to announce at a cocktail party that I just got my tongue pierced, I would be surrounded by an eager crowd of spectators. But if I were to announce that each morning before work I take a cold shower as a religious ritual, I would soon be talking to myself.”
ha ha, i am laughing at you again matt, does this feel all to familiar???? (kidding…well sort of) mcm
Being a techie and having the Cubeland domestic Monastery go WIFI, I made a scourge out of the no longer needed CAT-5 and beat myself with it quite regularly. As a penance during Lent I try to use as many Microflacid © products as possible to incur more hardship throughout the day.
Seriously, in the spirit of MCM, if you diet regularly eating under 2000 calories a day you are cool. If you eat a small breakfast, skip lunch, and eat a modest dinner in order to unite your sufferings with Christ’s and identify with the poor you are a freak.
Laugh away, folks. It’s all good. But I do want to make sure it’s clear that the bit I quoted is not mine – it’s taken from Pessaro’s piece.
So what do I say to my son if asks to get his tongue (nipple, nose, eyebrow, scrotum) pierced as a spiritual mortification????
Redirect him, stall, and I’ll send you my CAT-5 Scourge, instead.
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