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To: 22jt who wrote (42919)	4/26/2010 1:52:31 PM
From: diana g	8 Recommendations Respond to of 62564

The earlier joke about a Mother Superior reminded me of my interaction with Mother Superior Angelica at the convent a few years back. I was in my mid-teens. I was a quiet, modest girl who blushed easily. The convent was in a remote location and had a high adobe wall surrounding it, but it was right next to a vast expanse of land which was owned by a big corporation. One morning coming from just the other side of the wall we heard the noises from a drilling rig being set up for an exploratory oil well to be drilled. I went to see Mother Angelica. I was upset. ---- I said "Mother Superior, I want to request that I be relocated to another convent for the period of time during which those men are working next to the wall on that machinery. I find it extremely upsetting to hear them yelling at each other the way they do throughout the day." ---- Mother Angelica said "Well, Diana, it is true that they are loud and brash. But bear in mind that they are honest working men with wives and children they love and care for and treat gently. The men have ways of speaking between themselves that are different than our ways, but they are not evil men. They do not frame their statements to each other in the diplomatic phrasings that we are more familiar with in our world. But it could be argued that they speak plainly and directly to the point. That they simply call a spade a spade." ---- "Oh, no they don't, Mother Superior" I responded, "They call it a 'Fucking shovel' "