[Magdalen] Lenten Madness

[Jay Weigel]

Peter is the patron saint of screw-ups? Well, you have to remember that
Jesus nicknamed him "Rocky"....perhaps for his stubbornness, or maybe
because it took so long to get something through his head....

On Fri, 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
>