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Pope admits to snoozing while praying
TheLocal.it ^ | 1 November 2017 08:50 CET+01:00 | AFP

Posted on 11/02/2017 10:13:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Pope Francis has confessed he sometimes nods off while praying, and claims saints too have been known to grab some Holy shut-eye.

“When I pray, sometimes I fall asleep,” he said in an episode of a Catholic TV2000 television program published Tuesday on Youtube.

“Saint Thérèse did it too,” he said in reference to a 19th-century French nun, adding that Christians were called to feel like children lying in their fathers’ arms — a place conducive to napping, he implies. …

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: catholic; popefrancis; sainttherese; sleepingonthejob

1 posted on 11/02/2017 10:13:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

No comment.


2 posted on 11/02/2017 10:14:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

TMI, Your Holiness, believe me!
You don’t have to keep trying to act like your conception of the common man. Or should I say; proletariats.


3 posted on 11/02/2017 10:44:16 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Olog-hai

You’re not alone, papa.
I snooze when you’re praying, too.


4 posted on 11/02/2017 10:46:34 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s nothing to brag about. Jesus rebuked His Disciples for the same thing.


5 posted on 11/03/2017 2:15:30 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: BipolarBob

Twice, no less.


6 posted on 11/03/2017 6:33:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Praying for more Muslims coming to Europe? Most schizo Pope ever!


7 posted on 11/03/2017 6:35:51 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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