Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Speaking in forked tongues; "chrism" Message-ID: <571@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 20:54:44 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.571 Posted: Mon Feb 13 20:54:44 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Feb-84 02:04:41 EST References: <581@orca.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 11 Without commenting on orca!chrism's expose of "speaking in tongues," did anyone else catch the irony in his name? "Chrism" is a mixture of oil and balsam which is blessed by a bishop and used in sacramental rites of the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, such as Baptism and Confirmation. Anointment with chrism is an external sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit, the supposed agent of glossolalia. -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca