[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 11:16:23 UTC 2019


Thanks, Simon...it was the lack of the “us” that confused me. I had heard the term before. It’s one of those phrases that probably has an interesting origin!

> On Aug 19, 2019, at 4:56 AM, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 2019-08-16 14:44, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> Simon, I’m not sure what your last sentence means: “some of have no truck...” ?
> 
> There's a missing "us" -- I should have written "some of us have no truck with ..."
> 
> If you're unfamiliar with the phrase "have no truck with" it means "have nothing to do with".
> 
> I was relatively politely saying that it's a dogma that is not part of my belief-set, and indeed I think it's completely wrong and misguided.
> 
> There -- I've nailed my colours to the mast!
> 
> simon
> 
> 
>>> On Aug 16, 2019, at 9:37 AM, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:
>>> No, it certainly isn't mentioned in the bible.
>>> (And some of have no truck with it either!)
>>> simon
>>>> On 2019-08-16 13:35, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>>>> it mustn’t have been the Feast of the Assumption.
>>>> Btw, is that event mentioned in Scripture, or is it one of those
>>>> customs the church added later? Like the names of Mary’s parents...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> St Ives, Cambridgeshire


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