“What is the purpose of the holy cleansing of confession, if not to unload the weight of sin, and the remorse it involves, into the very bosom of our Lord, obtaining with absolution a new and airy lightness of soul, such as to make us forget the body tormented by wickedness?”
–Adso, in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
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Some of my fondest childhood memories come from the hours spent on summer evenings playing with the other children in the neighborhood. We would play baseball, basketball, kick the can, and other games until it was time to go home. But the way my brother, sister, and I knew it was time to come home was unique among all the children of the neighborhood. We were informed of the day’s end by our mother’s piercing whistle that could be heard throughout the neighborhood. When that shrill tone rang out in the summer air, everybody knew that we were going to grab our ball, bat, or whatever, jump on our bikes, and tear off for the house.
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