POB is *everywhere*

[amedia]

We're at church this morning and the priest is telling us about St. Augustine - the reading that inspired St. Aug. to turn from his worldly ways was the second reading today. So Father is going on about how St. Augustine used to be all about the pleasures of the flesh - fine food, fine clothes, mistresses - and I leaned over and whispered to my husband, "He was not a practicing saint at the time." Hubby had to work very hard to keep a straight face. :-)

(It's a line from one of the Aubrey-Maturin books - the one in which Jack learns that he has a natural son by a long-ago girlfriend. Stephen tells him that St. Augustine also fathered a son out-of-wedlock, which elates Jack so much that Stephen has to remind him gently "Of course, he was not a practicing saint at the time.")

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[littlewings04.livejournal.com]

That is the best line ever. *snickers*