Talk:Forty Hours' Devotion
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Curious. This is an interesting devotion and intriguing prayer exercise. But can anyone shed some light as to why "women must be excluded" from the devotion at night? I mean, other than general Catholic institutional sexism? Why only at night? Are they afraid they're more tempting to men when the moon is up?
75.6.9.36 20:57, 13 April 2007 (UTC)B.Flood
- I should have thought it was a fairly obvious precaution against scandal and gossip, given that there would naturally tend to be few people attending in the small hours, so giving occasion to all manner of salacious speculation as to what Father X and Miss Y were doing alone in there all that time … Vilĉjo (talk) 02:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Biased doctrinal article (pure POV)
This article seems to consist purely of the presentation of Catholic doctrine, and is completely unacceptable in an encyclopedia. The section heading "Forty Hours is a time in the period of 40 hours, where we can be with jesus and the blessed sacrament and appreciate what he does for us.", the sentence presented without comment: "In the presence of numberless dangers threatening the peace of Christendom and especially of the distracted state of France, the pontiff strongly commended the practice of unwearied prayer." - are examples of this. The sentence: "It seems that it is especially in connection with these exercises, as they flourished under the direction of the Oratorian Fathers, that we trace the beginning of those sacred concerts of which the memory is perpetuated in the musical "Oratorios" of our greatest composers." - is simply idiotic. This article should be completely rewriteen or removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.215.225.254 (talk) 17:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
