tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500290951089380141.post3770462393448902110..comments2023-05-21T07:02:00.288-05:00Comments on Praise and Bless: PrioritesBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500290951089380141.post-30122752338231814862007-07-03T12:19:00.000-05:002007-07-03T12:19:00.000-05:00Thanks for the comment, Anonymous! It's an ancient...Thanks for the comment, Anonymous! It's an ancient principle of religious life that its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission!Brother Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500290951089380141.post-84511869057312827632007-07-03T12:10:00.000-05:002007-07-03T12:10:00.000-05:00I'm currently reading the biography of Joseph P. M...I'm currently reading the biography of Joseph P. Machebuef, the first bishop of Denver. As it turns out when he left his home town of Riom, France in 1839, he was so concerned that his father would talk him out of becoming a missionary in America that he dressed in civilian clothes the day he left, and when he had to pass his father's house on the way to the station he got down on the ground and had to sneek below the window so he wouldn't be seen. He thought it would be much easier to ask forgiveness after he left than permission to go.<BR/><BR/>This was the advice he recived from the fathers who had trained him in the seminary. I expect they had this gospel passage in mind when they gave it to him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com