tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post2237073419670928152..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Rector to Bishop: Congrats Fr. Charles!Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-42774024004419767362011-11-03T13:30:19.009-05:002011-11-03T13:30:19.009-05:00Did I once read, or have I misremembered or confab...Did I once read, or have I misremembered or confabulated that Jordan of Saxony said to group of friars, "I would sooner see you lying in your grave than sitting on a bishop's throne"?<br /><br />His Vita also relates that when a group of hierarchs complained that bishops from the new Order were not very satisfactory, he replied that that while in the Order they could be monitored and constrained but since they were chosen not by the Order or in consultation with it, but by others, out of personal favor or kinship, their unsatisfactory behavior was those people's problem, not his or the Order's. (He loved a good laugh, but he was blunt and no fool.)<br /><br />BTW, no personal aspersions implied at all about the new bishop; I know nothing of him. It just sparked these memories in my hyperlinked brain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com