A lady I do not remember in what movie, called for "a coffee ', but without sugar,' cause I have to mortify" ...
Today during a search on the life of a couple of saints who have little in common except that they were born in the Slavic-speaking countries, I noticed how, in the description of their holy lives, not missing the use of a hair shirt for the mortification corporal.
Given the remoteness in time, their lives are lost in legend, and I hit the safety of commentators to give certain details such as the use of a hair shirt, and that 'it is a very small instruments that note, if worn . But holiness', you know, go for penance and mortification of the body. The shepherds of Fatima is scourged with nettles ... his secretary revealed 'after his death, that Paul VI wore a hair shirt ... and since John Paul II can not ' to be outdone, someone 'came up with a book in which he stated that the Polish flogged in private with a strap (with what evidence?).
For the uninitiated (or had not seen "The Da Vinci Code"), the hair shirt and nothing more 'than a metal belt that tightens at the waist or thigh, more' or less depending on how close you should mortify. Obviously, there are some good metal spikes that pierce the flesh and cause pain with every step.
If you are interested in this kind of article, there are sites on hair shirts to choose from handcrafted forged by Italian nuns (!). If you're a religious Christian or particularly pious people, pero ', I warn you: I do not know what sense it makes to emulate Christ's suffering, since there were self-inflicted, but inflicted by torturers. It also "donate" their own suffering body of your Lord it sounds counterintuitive, given that most 'parts we talk about the sacredness' of the body, etc ...
For the rest I do not have to consider the use made of it ... :) Maybe you just want to become saints, and hold a deliberately hung in the closet, you never know.
Heck, I wanted to talk about humiliation, and it 'came a sort of post on the hair-shirt ... I work too! : P
But now I'm not going to cancel everything and try to write some solace that any rejection of the folder red. Until next time! : P
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