[Magdalen] Lenten Madness

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 08:45:38 UTC 2018


James,
I have looked and looked, and I can’t find any mention in Scripture of Paul’s being on a horse.

Kind of like the idea that there were 3 Wise Men...   no number and no names ever show up.



> On Feb 16, 2018, at 1:41 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Lenten Madness has begun and started with a smack-down between Peter and
> Paul.
> 
> It looks like Peter is edging out Paul.
> 
> Several folks claimed that Peter was the patron of screw-ups, but it seems
> to me Paul certainly qualifies as one who messed pretty darn badly also,
> and finally admitted the error of his ways when Jesus knocked him off his
> horse.
> 
> Peter denied Christ several times, but Paul was instrumental in the death
> of some of Christ's followers. There had to have been a tremendously
> difficult task of reconciliation there. I certainly couldn't go through
> that.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy


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