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Knotty questions

25 July, 2007
Posted in: Princess

Me:  Look, all the people in the cafe are mothers and daughters.

Her: Well, everybody is somebody’s child.

Me: True.

Her: Except God, of course.

Me: Well, no, Mary was God’s mother.

Her: I didn’t realise that Jesus and God were brothers.

Me (anxiously though, you know, quite pleased as well that she’s getting the hang of family relationships – I have drawn family trees on the back of envelopes to show her how third cousins work, degrees of cousinship is such a useful thing to know and it’s a bit like public procurement or state aids, so few people know anything about it that even showing a little knowledge is enough to gain you much admiration): No, um, actually, you know, I might be wrong there, I think God is actually Jesus’s father, though of course the Trinity is one of those theological mysteries which are, um, mysterious.

Her: Can I have lemon tart?

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  1. Anonymous says

    26 July, 2007 at 01:49

    Oh my goodness!!!! I can’t wait to see her and hear these bon mots in real life. Sorry, I think you rang earlier but I missed it. Am actually back NEXT weekend not this – hope that doesn’t mean I miss you but I suspect it does .

  2. moobs says

    26 July, 2007 at 21:42

    I think it was St Augustine who said that there qwere no non-heretical doctrines of the Trinity. No-one can grasp it – which is why it gets to be a mystery I suppose.

  3. disgruntled commuter says

    27 July, 2007 at 09:31

    Every Irish child worth its salt needs to know the difference between a second cousin and a first cousin once removed… it was one of the things I loved about Southern Africa, where they had even more complicated degrees of cousinship to get a handle on

  4. pog says

    27 July, 2007 at 12:29

    I remember one of my teachers trying to explain the Holy Trinity to us kids in Communion class back in the dark ages. For several years after that I was convinced we were worshipping The Great Shamrock in the Sky.

  5. brolo says

    29 July, 2007 at 14:28

    The Holy Trinity is a lot like a lemon tart. I’ll leave it at that.

  6. pog says

    30 July, 2007 at 15:51

    Garnished with shamrock?

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