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We All Know What He Meant

8 March, 2018
Posted in: Ireland, Reading etc.

My religious friend is very associated with the Carmelites, maybe he’s even a lay Carmelite, if there is such a thing (I could google it but I know he will tell me whether I do or not so I am saving energy here) anyhow, he’s very pally with a lot of Carmelites and he heard this great story from a Carmelite nun.

So anyway a Carmelite priest was saying mass for this bunch of Carmelite nuns including this lady in the Carmelite convent. For reasons which are unclear he began to talk about Elizabeth I in his sermon. He got very worked up about her many sins against Ireland and, as his indignation mounted, he said, “Virgin Queen, Virgin Queen? She was no more a virgin than you or I.”

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  1. Ellen says

    9 March, 2018 at 06:40

    That’s funny!

  2. belgianwaffle says

    9 March, 2018 at 17:24

    Yeah and, unlike many of these stories, I think it might even be true.

  3. Charles says

    9 March, 2018 at 19:07

    A whiskey priest, Irish or Scottish you can take your pick.

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