Everybody Limbo?
Dec. 1st, 2005 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerPeter took Caroline out to play giving me a chance to really go through the toy mess in the living room and get her toys back in order. Out of her magnetic letters we are missing Q but that may be under the couch. Out of her alphabet blocks we are missing C and Z but I found the missing D. Out of her alphabet block books she is missing R and P. I have less hope of finding those since they left the house at a couple of points. I found all her fisher price little people but one and matched them up to their toys. I also restored order to the kitchen so all in all not a bad day's work.
Today is "finish up the living room" day so tomorrow can be "those other rooms that just need a little work" day. I might do one of those rooms at some point today just to feel better about the cleaning over all. I want to have this all done Friday night so I can decorate for the party Saturday without having to keep cleaning. There is some shopping that needs to be done in there somewhere too. I will be so glad to get to Monday with my sanity intact. Ariel and Peter have been great help with this project. I am hoping when it is done we might maintain it a little longer than we usually do. But I have a feeling the next costume or other project will just throw the room back in to Chaos.
According to a new paper coming out from the Vatican limbo doesn't exist. It was a construct created in the Middle Ages to explain what happened to babies who did before they could be baptized. Considering the infant mortality rate that existed at the time, it doesn't surprise me that this concept was created to make people feel better. Dante used it in his work to explain where all the virtuous heathen people who were alive before Jesus arrived went after they died. Now Limbo is not purgatory which does still exist according to the church. I don't think that if the Catholic Church redrafts their version of architecture of the cosmos without Limbo that the word is going to go out of usage. We use it all the time to describe the condition of being disregarded or forgotten. I read it this morning in the paper about a bill that is stalled out in the state senate. Makes me wonder if Purgatory or the levels of Hell are next to be removed from the catechism since they were also created about the same time. Or if this is going to be another St. Christopher thing where they say he didn't exist and therefore is not a saint and then reverse themselves and say that St. Christopher does exist and he is still the patron saint of travelers.
I am grateful for the word Limbo.
Today is "finish up the living room" day so tomorrow can be "those other rooms that just need a little work" day. I might do one of those rooms at some point today just to feel better about the cleaning over all. I want to have this all done Friday night so I can decorate for the party Saturday without having to keep cleaning. There is some shopping that needs to be done in there somewhere too. I will be so glad to get to Monday with my sanity intact. Ariel and Peter have been great help with this project. I am hoping when it is done we might maintain it a little longer than we usually do. But I have a feeling the next costume or other project will just throw the room back in to Chaos.
According to a new paper coming out from the Vatican limbo doesn't exist. It was a construct created in the Middle Ages to explain what happened to babies who did before they could be baptized. Considering the infant mortality rate that existed at the time, it doesn't surprise me that this concept was created to make people feel better. Dante used it in his work to explain where all the virtuous heathen people who were alive before Jesus arrived went after they died. Now Limbo is not purgatory which does still exist according to the church. I don't think that if the Catholic Church redrafts their version of architecture of the cosmos without Limbo that the word is going to go out of usage. We use it all the time to describe the condition of being disregarded or forgotten. I read it this morning in the paper about a bill that is stalled out in the state senate. Makes me wonder if Purgatory or the levels of Hell are next to be removed from the catechism since they were also created about the same time. Or if this is going to be another St. Christopher thing where they say he didn't exist and therefore is not a saint and then reverse themselves and say that St. Christopher does exist and he is still the patron saint of travelers.
I am grateful for the word Limbo.
