5 responses to “The Convent”

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   Anonymous

   15/06/2006

   I really enjoyed the programme, looking forward to the next part.

   Couldn’t help grinning all the way through though thinking of you and a certain remark about convents and nuns from last year!

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   Mark

   15/06/2006

   “wish more people did it”
   I tried to post a comment here, but it disappeared…

   anyway, I just said, be careful, because I’m scared I may get “itchy feet” again and want to reexamine looking at monastic life.

   I was disappointed by how rude two of the people were, but the sincerity of the lady who had been hurt by her family and was “afraid of God” was amazing stuff.

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   Anonymous

   15/06/2006

   Monastic Life
   I thought about monastic life at one point. However, when I went to a monastery to consider it more thoroughly I was stricken with a plague of boils and ended up being told to flee by a doctor. Notwithstanding my hesitation about the possibility of God meddling any more with humanity than by God’s becoming incarnate, there was no arguing with a plague of boils and I never went back.

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   Mark

   17/06/2006

   Hey, but I never got boils! And as I was saying to Fr Philip last week it was that very experience in the monastery that has left a mark on the rest of my life. I simply don’t want to play along with materialism to the same extent anymore…

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5. 

   Moyra

   19/06/2006

   It was certainly interesting watching from an insider’s point of view…

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