We Have a Saint.
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I was very pleased to hear of his canonization at Mass this morning!
I was very pleased to hear of his canonization at Mass this morning!
At Mass this morning our priest announced the canonization and gave a brief overview of St. Piers brief life. His love for God, the Eucharist, and our Blessed Mother. He talked of his tireless service to the sick, poor, and wounded WWI veterans. He also commented on how St. Pier enjoyed skiing, mountaineering as well as pipes and cigars. I knew St.Pier smoked pipes but was surprised our priest mentioned it.
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Our priest did not mention his fondness for the pipas and I wanted to shout it out! I did mention it to him after mass but the father seemed non plussed. Oh well at least WE know. I’m already asking him to pray for me , I figure we have an edge as fellow pipers!
They did the same with Churchill at his museum, airbrushed out his famous cigar
www.historynewsnetwork.org
Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture
A photograph of Winston Churchill giving his victory salute has been airbrushed to remove his signature cigar. In the well-known original image, Churchill makes a "V" shaped symbol with his fingers – while gripping a cigar in the corner of his mouth. But in a reproduction of the picture, hanging...
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St. Pier Giorgio was a Lay Dominican, and I am currently in formation as one as well. I was at the Provincial Council meeting for the Central Province this weekend at Marytown and took my pipe along to enjoy a bowl in honor of our brother being raised to the honor of the altar.
It's fairly common now, along with Churchils cigars FDR's cigarettes and Stalins pipes or cigarettes have all gone the same way. Where I live in my late wife's country the first two presidents of the Republic, the first an almost non stop cigarette smoker the second a pipe man par excellence are no longer shown smoking cigarettes or pipes. History's there to be distorted and tuned to whatever needs to be believed to suit the current agenda.They did the same with Churchill at his museum, airbrushed out his famous cigar
Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture
A photograph of Winston Churchill giving his victory salute has been airbrushed to remove his signature cigar. In the well-known original image, Churchill makes a "V" shaped symbol with his fingers – while gripping a cigar in the corner of his mouth. But in a reproduction of the picture, hanging...
I believe his feast day is the 4th of July. That will be an easy one to remember!
But that also means that he won't get celebrated in the USA (unless the observance is transferred), as the ordo for the USA indicates that we commemorate Independence Day with its proper prayers and preface. (Yeah, I know, that's liturgy geek-level talk, but I embrace my geekdom!)
I'm very happy to see that the TinySaints folks have not succumbed to historical revisionism. I may get one of these to attach to my pipe go-bag:
I have to get a few before they change them! Thanks
They succumbed to historical revisionism...
...and replaced the pipe, albeit with the correct shape. But I've also seen this one:
Wonderful to see Pier Giorgio Frassati canonized!
Another pipe smoking saint is John Kemble. From Wiki:
Before he was led out to his execution on 22 August 1679 Kemble insisted on saying his prayers and finishing his drink, and the assembled party joined the elderly priest in a final smoke and a cup of sack. The Herefordshire sayings, Kemble pipe and Kemble cup, refer to a parting pipe or cup.[3] Before his death Kemble addressed the assembled crowd, pointing out that no association with the "plot" had been charged to him. The old priest went on to say: "The failure of the authorities in London to connect me to the plot makes it evident that I die only for profession of the Catholic religion, which was the religion that first made this Kingdom Christian."
Another pipe smoking saint is John Kemble. From Wiki:
Before he was led out to his execution on 22 August 1679 Kemble insisted on saying his prayers and finishing his drink, and the assembled party joined the elderly priest in a final smoke and a cup of sack. The Herefordshire sayings, Kemble pipe and Kemble cup, refer to a parting pipe or cup.[3] Before his death Kemble addressed the assembled crowd, pointing out that no association with the "plot" had been charged to him. The old priest went on to say: "The failure of the authorities in London to connect me to the plot makes it evident that I die only for profession of the Catholic religion, which was the religion that first made this Kingdom Christian."
Don't forget the first millennial saint Saint Carlo Acutis.
The Tolkien Tiny Saint is also piping
Hand made on opalescent glass.I do these when I have free time.
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Lovely to see so many other Catholics on here. I was actually introduced to smoking by a friend who works as a Catholic missionary at another Catholic friend's birthday party, so it's always been something of a contemplative exercise for me.