tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29680163.post2594262318666857465..comments2024-02-28T12:04:11.837-08:00Comments on Jesus in Love Blog: Blessed John of La Verna: Kissed by JesusKittredge Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02617858676733169316noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29680163.post-48921749026292879862014-08-11T10:29:02.252-07:002014-08-11T10:29:02.252-07:00I also couldn’t help thinking of “faggot” with all...I also couldn’t help thinking of “faggot” with all its homosexual implications when I saw that John's chapel is called Cappella del Faggio (Chapel of the Beech). Sister Unity, I love your idea that this may be the true origin of associating “faggot” as a term for gay men. <br /><br />Kevin Elphick told me that his home looks out on a stand of beech trees, but he had not thought of them in this way before.Kittredge Cherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02617858676733169316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29680163.post-84714236403510161992014-08-10T10:51:53.606-07:002014-08-10T10:51:53.606-07:00This passage makes me wonder... I've never rea...This passage makes me wonder... I've never really felt intuitively comfortable with the given etymology of "Faggot" as coming from the sticks used to burn us at the stake, it just never rang true for me... reading this paragraph I have to wonder if perhaps here is an origin of the word? Surely St. John's remarkable story would have been known around Christendom... might there be any other associations of homosexuality and beech trees?<br /><br />"While meditating under a beech tree at La Verna, John had a vision of kissing and being kissed by Christ. The biographer Ermenegildo Da Chitignano places the apparition sometime before the visit of the Roman Emperor, Henry VII, to Alverna and Bl. John in 1312, following his coronation in Rome. Much later, after the beech tree fell, a small chapel was built there. It is known as the Chapel of the Beech (Cappella del Faggio)."Sister Unitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29680163.post-30854686423370174702014-08-09T13:34:01.902-07:002014-08-09T13:34:01.902-07:00Thanks, Trudie! Kevin’s reflections on being ther...Thanks, Trudie! Kevin’s reflections on being there at Mount La Verna touched me too. I especially like the way that he turned events that could have been frustrating (such as a locked door) into a source of blessing.Kittredge Cherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02617858676733169316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29680163.post-62614011626115756762014-08-09T11:30:09.203-07:002014-08-09T11:30:09.203-07:00What a wonderful post. I especially delighted in ...What a wonderful post. I especially delighted in Elphick's personal sharing.Trudiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866513608442388870noreply@blogger.com