Pope Benedict XVI hits NYC
April 12, 2008 6:29 AM Subscribe
The most challenging scenario(video) of communion distribution in the upper deck of Yankee Stadium. See the Pope on 5th Avenue or vote for your favorite papal skateboard design. Other activities. Itinerary. Security. Via.
The Mozart of Theology. Or like the Dalai Lama with brains.
posted by Faze at 7:08 AM on April 12, 2008
posted by Faze at 7:08 AM on April 12, 2008
Is it just me or does The Most Challenging Scenario of Communion Distribution in the Upper Deck of Yankee Stadium sound like a great title for a novel?
posted by Bromius at 8:16 AM on April 12, 2008
posted by Bromius at 8:16 AM on April 12, 2008
The Most Challenging Scenario of Communion Distribution in the Upper Deck of Yankee Stadium
More challenging than throwing a bag of peanuts into the middle of a row, or passing down a hotdot with all the works?
posted by three blind mice at 8:31 AM on April 12, 2008
More challenging than throwing a bag of peanuts into the middle of a row, or passing down a hotdot with all the works?
posted by three blind mice at 8:31 AM on April 12, 2008
EXTREME UNCTION!!!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:47 AM on April 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:47 AM on April 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
like the Dalai Lama with brains.
"His arduous daily regimen begins at 3:30 A.M., after which he proceeds, as he told Iyer, to “meditation, prostration, reciting special mantras, then more meditation and more prostrations, followed by reading Tibetan philosophy or other texts; then reading and studying and, in the evening, ‘some meditation—evening meditation—for about an hour. Then, at eight-thirty, sleep.’ ”
This sounds like a lot of meditation and reading for a monk in his seventies—especially someone who, beginning at the age of six, underwent a gruelling education for nearly two decades in Buddhist metaphysics, Tibetan art and culture, logic, Sanskrit, and traditional medicine, and eventually secured a geshe degree (roughly equivalent to a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy)."
Don't think the Dalai Lama is lacking for brains.
posted by longdaysjourney at 10:50 AM on April 12, 2008 [3 favorites]
"His arduous daily regimen begins at 3:30 A.M., after which he proceeds, as he told Iyer, to “meditation, prostration, reciting special mantras, then more meditation and more prostrations, followed by reading Tibetan philosophy or other texts; then reading and studying and, in the evening, ‘some meditation—evening meditation—for about an hour. Then, at eight-thirty, sleep.’ ”
This sounds like a lot of meditation and reading for a monk in his seventies—especially someone who, beginning at the age of six, underwent a gruelling education for nearly two decades in Buddhist metaphysics, Tibetan art and culture, logic, Sanskrit, and traditional medicine, and eventually secured a geshe degree (roughly equivalent to a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy)."
Don't think the Dalai Lama is lacking for brains.
posted by longdaysjourney at 10:50 AM on April 12, 2008 [3 favorites]
And here I was hoping the papal skateboard was somehow the solution to the most challenging scenario of communion distribution in the upper deck of Yankee Stadium. I bet his Holiness could get some righteous grinds going if he wanted to.
posted by Jilder at 10:56 AM on April 12, 2008
posted by Jilder at 10:56 AM on April 12, 2008
The Pope is infallible. Thus the wafer distributions will have no hitches whatsoever.
posted by T.D. Strange at 11:30 AM on April 12, 2008
posted by T.D. Strange at 11:30 AM on April 12, 2008
Doesn't matter what he does or who he is. If he fails to win games George Steinbrenner is going to fire his ass all the way back to AA.
posted by fourcheesemac at 11:59 AM on April 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by fourcheesemac at 11:59 AM on April 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
Is it just me or does The Most Challenging Scenario of Communion Distribution in the Upper Deck of Yankee Stadium sound like a great title for a novel?
I thought it was a new book by Borat.
posted by lukemeister at 2:45 PM on April 12, 2008
I thought it was a new book by Borat.
posted by lukemeister at 2:45 PM on April 12, 2008
Do you pronounce the Sacrament of Last Rites "extra monktion"? When I was a kid, we did. It sounds like something out of Shaolin Soccer.
posted by lukemeister at 2:51 PM on April 12, 2008
posted by lukemeister at 2:51 PM on April 12, 2008
And here I thought they were going to use the T-shirt cannons.
posted by fungible at 5:35 PM on April 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by fungible at 5:35 PM on April 12, 2008 [1 favorite]
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