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This is a really good sentence, I think:

"For Mark, the Gospel, like human life itself, begins with a cry and ends with a tomb, and in between is the noise and turbulence of the sea."

Eamon Duffy, Walking to Emmaus.

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Date: 2009-02-11 02:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shoebox2.livejournal.com
Oh, that is lovely. (I want to work up an extended metaphor using staying afloat in fragile craft here, but that's probably because I'm really tired.)

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Date: 2009-02-11 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com
This link (http://www.morpethherald.co.uk/news/Retired-vicar-spreads-the-word.4961198.jp) is appropriate, though not devastatingly so.

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Date: 2009-02-11 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com
Hah. I can just hear him saying that, too.

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Date: 2009-02-11 09:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rustica.livejournal.com
Wonderful comment

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