Regular readers will be aware that I quite often go into the Ashmolean Museum, England's oldest public museum and part of this University, to commune with that great Pontiff, Papa Lambertini, Pope Benedict XIV. Upstairs, and right along to the furthest room to the West, there he is just inside the door, carved by a very competent anonymous Baroque sculptor, as one of a set of four busts of eighteenth century popes,
Today, he was silent; and then I noticed a tear, a single tear, rolling down from his right eye.
After a few moments of puzzlement, I decided to take a look at the other three Sovereign Pontiffs. Yes! Each of them was clearly lachrymose.
Whatever can this portentous portent portend?
I shall not enable suggestions which are in more than twelve words.
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..if they keep quiet, the very stones will cry out..
And Jesus wept.
O tempora o mores.
He defended the indissolubility of Marriage!
U kiddin me? Everyone cries in public nowadays. Don’t need a reason.
My goodness...such wonderful comments!!
Sorrow over the great consequences of great sin man brings upon himself.
Defensor matrimonii
They have discerned the purpose of strange devices hovering around : camera & microphone.
Francisco franciscatur.
(Franciscare = "hacer lío.")
Two words: England rugby.
Aeneid I.462
Sunt lacrimae virum.
"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables."
(II. Peter 1:16)
Either the Barque of Peter is leaking, or the Ashmolean roof is.
quid me solliciti sitis?
for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine...
Wait, are those tears of sorrow, joy, or laughter?
"My Soul is sorrowful even unto death". Mt. 26:38
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