Holy musings!

For the sake of anyone who bothers to look at this blog regularly, I'd thought I'd give you a break from the daily report on how the garden work is getting on!

I was thinking the other day, ' I wonder who the Patron Saint of Secretaries would be?' It would be quite useful to know who in particular I could invoke when the computer freezes or I accidentally delete a file that has taken me ages to write!

A quick look on Google came up with two suggestions; St Catherine of Siena or St Genesius (Who? I can hear you say!).

I think most of us have heard of St Catherine but I must admit St Genesius was a new one on me. He is also apparently Patron Saint of Actors, Comedians, Dancers, Epilepsy and Lawyers (Spot the link, anyone? I'm not sure I can). An actor from 3rd Century Rome who was converted to Christianity whilst portraying in a play a catechumen about to be baptised. He was beheaded for his pains by the Emperor Diocletian when he persisted in his faith.

Of the two suggestions, I think I'll plump for St Catherine. She is also the Patron Saint of Artists, Nurses and Philosophers. She ranks high among the mystics and spiritual writers of the Church and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI.

What really 'sold' her to me though is that, in recent years, she has been suggested (along with many others) as patron of the Internet!

St Catherine - Pray for us

Computers ...

We're getting a new computer in the office so I spent a large part of my day there backing up files to an external hard drive, staring at a screen similar to the one in the picture watching files flying from left to right at varying speeds. It's quite mesmerising so you need to take a break now and again! It took ages because the reason we are replacing the existing PC is because it is getting old and slow and bits don't work as well as they should, or even in some cases, not at all. A bit like us really, as we grow older.

This got me to thinking. Sometimes people refer to a year in a dog's life being equivalent to 7 years in a human's life. I wonder how many 'human years' make up a year in the life of a computer? The office computer is only about 5 years old. If we take the biblical idea of a man's life being 3 score years and ten and do the arithmetic, then that makes a 'computer year' equivalent to 14 human years! Just a thought.