LPPM MMV "Cleanth Siegel, S.J.,"

[Dave Monroe]

"'You're the same,' she whispered, 'you have this
monumental Lupescu coolness. You're sure you're not
his doubleganger.'
   "'No,' Siegel said, 'I'm not sure. Go ahead.' She
hesitated and he prompted her: 'Bless me father...' 
   "The eyelids flew open. 'David said that too. Who
are you, Siegel?'
   "'For the moment a father confessor. What seems to
be your trouble, my child.'

[...]

"Tucked snugly in some rectory of the mind, Cleanth
Siegel, S.J., looked on with approval."

[...]

"He took her hand. 'Come on,' he said, 'I'd like to
meet Irving. Say for your penance ten Hail Marys and
make a good Act of Contrition.'" (MMV, pp. 9-10)


"Bless me father ..."

How To Go To Confession 

1.  The Priest will often begin with the Sign of the
Cross or a greeting and blessing. 

2.  The Penitent begins by saying “Bless me Father for
I have sinned, it has been ____ (number of days,
weeks, months, etc.) since my last confession.  These
are my sins”....

http://www.catholic.org/frz/examen/confession_how.htm


"rectory of the mind"

Main Entry: rec·to·ry 
Pronunciation: 'rek-t(&-)rE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ries
1 : a benefice held by a rector
2 : a residence of a rector or a parish priest

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=rectory


"Cleanth Siegel, S.J."

The Society of Jesus

We are one of the largest religious orders in the
Catholic Church. The Society of Jesus was founded in
1540 by St. Ignatius Loyola, a Basque nobleman and
soldier, who found God in all things. Today there are
over 20,000 Jesuits serving the Church in 112 nations
on six continents.

http://www.jesuit.org/

The Society of Jesus is a religious order founded by
Saint Ignatius Loyola. Designated by him "The Company
of Jesus" to indicate its true leader and its soldier
spirit, the title was Latinized into "Societas Jesu"
in the Bull of Paul III approving its formation and
the first formula of its Institute ("Regimini
militantis ecclesia", 27 Sept., 1540). The term
"Jesuit" (of fifteenth-century origin, meaning one who
used too frequently or appropriated the name of
Jesus), was first applied to the society in reproach
(1544-52), and was never employed by its founder,
though members and friends of the society in time
accepted the name in its good sense. The Society ranks
among religious institutes as a mendicant order of
clerks regular, that is, a body of priests organized
for apostolic work, following a religious rule, and
relying on alms for their support ....

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14081a.htm

Cf. ...

"... the still small Jesuit voice which kept him from
being either kicked around or conscious of guilt or
simply ineffective like so many of the other Jewish
boys on campus ..." (p. 1)

"This little Jesuit thing, this poltergeist, would
start kicking around inside his head ...."

"quaint Jesuit arguments" (V., Ch. 1, p. 12)

"DEVIL'S ADVOCATE'S what the shingle sez, yes inside
is a Jesuit here to act in that capacity, here to
preach, like his colleague Teilhard de Chardin,
against return." (GR, Pt. III, p. 539)

And in M&D ...

Jesuits
266; 287; 328; 377; 420; 432; 479; College, 514;
discovered by Blondelle, 519; Lesson I, 520; "a
Financial Entity" 528; "Visitants from beneath the
Ice" 531; 534; 543; 546; 601; physics, 604; 611; "five
and a Quarter Degrees [...] removed from the Chinese
Circle" 629; 687; 711; 772

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/alpha/j.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0408&msg=92483

Pynchon don't much like Jesuits, do he?  Hm ...


"for your penance"

6.  The Priest will give you a penance.  Listen to it
carefully and remember it.  You can refuse a penance
if it is too vague or impossible to do in a reasonable
time. 

7.  The Penitent makes an act of contrition in these
or similar words:  O my God, I am heartily sorry for
having offended Thee, and I detest all of my sins
because of Thy just punishments.  But most of all
because they offend Thee my God, who art all good and
deserving of all my love.  I firmly resolve, with the
help of Thy grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the
near occasions of sin.  Amen.   Memorize a good act of
contrition.

http://www.catholic.org/frz/examen/confession_how.htm


		
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