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Another speaker said, "I will be ashamed to enter the Cathedral if $131 million is spent to build it. That's money that should help the poor and homeless. Our priorities are wrong."

As it is said in the Gospel:

"Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." (Saint John, 12:3-6)

30 posted on 05/08/2004 3:22:22 PM PDT by A. Pole (<SARCASM> The genocide of Albanians was stopped in its tracks before it began.</S>)

Excellent point.

But if they want to anoint Christ, couldn't they at least do it with something that doesn't blind people as they drive past?

32 posted on 05/08/2004 3:24:22 PM PDT by MegaSilver (Training a child in red diapers is the cruelest and most unusual form of abuse.)

To: A. Pole; sinkspur

Expense for the glorification of God and the edification of the Faithful should not be spared.

Since I don't have a vote, nor more than a passing interest, it's not relevant--but I'd like to see a bigger pic of the proposed building.

37 posted on 05/08/2004 3:43:24 PM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, TomasTorquemadaGentlemen'sClub)

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