Subject: Re: sister, sister
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 09:05:09 EST
At 8:57 AM +0000 on 2/14/2000, you wrote:
> As they used to say in my home town - before the vocations
> all dried up: 'The Sisters of Mercy have not charity.
> And the Sisters of Charity have no mercy....'
>
> The once popular image appears to be just as sentimentally
> unrealistic as the one Leonard Cohen had of HIS 'Sisters.'
> (Good tune, though.)
Malachy McCourt said, of his time as a child in Limerick, that there
were plenty of Catholics in the country but few Christians. I always
thought it was an intriguing sentiment, raised, as I was in Catholic
school until college.
As far as Lenny and his "sisters of mercy," they were two backpacking
girls he found huddled in his doorway against the rain. He brought
them in, they fell asleep on the couch, and while he watched them
sleep he wrote that lovely song....
--tim
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