[Sca-cooks] Road Trip, was: Lenten ideas for non Christians...

[Nick Sasso]

> -----Original Message-----
> 	Wow, I think you just blew my mind....
> 	But yes, now that you say it that way, I am in that group (there
> are that many of us that it is a group?!?).  I am interested
> in what my
> persona, a practicing Christian (although I think she too would not be
> completely one with the idea) would have to go through on a
> daily basis
> during the Lenten season.
> 	I am not a practicing Christian, although I was baptized both
> Catholic and Episcopalian.  I even taught Sunday school to the younger
> kids when I was a teenager, although I wanted to do it so I wouldn't
> have to sit through the services.  I am, however a student of the
> Church, and of how it affected the everyday lives of the people in the
> past.  I am also interested in deepening my persona
> development, so this<<SNIP>> . . .  I am pretty sincerely limited in my
> options.  I think that feeling brought me closer to understanding
> Christianna's life better than anything else.  This year I want to
> explore more Mediterranean options, but I don't know how much of that
> 13th century England and the northeastern continent would have known.
> My persona plans are to head towards Salerno, where I understand they
> will train women to be doctors.  Perhaps heading that way during Lent
> would be a good way to keep my diet varied! Great zot - I see an
> adventure on the horizon!
> Christianna
> Off to pack for a road trip...

I think I missed your time period.  Are you pre- or post- "excommunicate
everything that is a Bishop" phase in the 10th century (late 1000's?  I am
interested in finding about the reactions in the 'borders sections' of the
two rites, Eastern and Roman.  After the declaration of heresies against
each other, I am sure that the animus filtered eventually to the educated,
but even longer to get to the common folks in, say Tyrolia, or eastern
shores of the Adriatic.  I postulate that the observances of Lent stayed
more or less similar for a century and then started to vary as more
generations understood the great schism and the ex-communications and stuff.

Salerno sounds like an intriguing choice as it will have strong influences
from Rome, Naples as well as the trade routes . . . no doubt Christianna
would hear all about it all from there.  Nice choice, I must say.  Wonder if
the brothers have a monastery set up there yet?

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