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[tree_and_leaf]

So the Epistle (or for-the-Epistle, really) at Mass today was Acts 23. Which is one of the courtroom scenes, in which Paul manages to start a riot between his accusers with one single sentence.

I think - especially given the scene after the shipwreck at Malta where Paul is attacked by a poisonous snake, before it decides that no, actually, it doesn't want Apostle for its dinner - we need not wonder who's the patron saint of Slytherin.

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[kerravonsen]

(grin)

[gramina]

ROFL! I like :)

[wychwood]

Peter is Gryffindor, isn't he. So completely and utterly. He has the well-meaning hot-head down to a "T" *g*. So are the Sons of Thunder :)

What about the other two? I'd personally be picking Augustine for Ravenclaw, but then, I would. Aquinas would do, too. Hufflepuff? I'm not thinking of anyone immediately obvious - perhaps Francis?

What house is Thomas the Apostle?

Wow, this is a whole new potential distraction *g*.

[em_h]

There's also the endless fun of trying to Myers-Briggs-type the evangelists ...

[tree_and_leaf]

Thomas is difficult (Ravenclaw because of his commitment to experimental data?) I agree Augustine's probably Ravenclaw (though I think he's got a Slytherin side, too - all that youthful ambition!)

Hufflepuff is tricky - I can't think of anyone before Francis. Which is really weird - you'd think they'd be easy. Benedict, perhaps - the concern with living as a community seems quite Hufflepuff.

[wychwood]

(Ravenclaw because of his commitment to experimental data?)

That's what I was thinking! The insistence on facts and reality seems quite appropriate *g*.

I agree Augustine's probably Ravenclaw (though I think he's got a Slytherin side, too - all that youthful ambition!)

Oh, for sure. Actually, thinking about it, he's maybe even more Slytherin than he is Ravenclaw...

I think it's harder to spot Hufflepuffs because they're not so often leaders - they're the ones who emphasise loyalty and community, after all. So it's quite likely that half the apostles would be Hufflepuff, but they're not the ones we hear about specifically! Martha's Hufflepuff, I think. And Joseph!

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh, of course Joseph is Hufflepuff, and I think Martha too.

Mary - Our Lady - is Gryffindor, I think. I'm less sure about Mary Magdalen. Gryffindor or Ravenclaw?

[wychwood]

I agree on Our Lady. Definitely.

Mary Magdalen... it's really hard to say, because we have so little actual information about her! I think I'd go for Gryffindor on the assumption that the "disgraced former prostitute" thing is true - it takes a lot of guts and gumption to get yourself out into society as though you were an actual, y'know, person with a background like that.

[watersword]

I am trying desperately not to crack up in the office, thank you.