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Title translation (for those of you who haven’t spent time reading Flannery O’Connor and ain’t familiar with the way we folks from the South speak): “That There 123 Book Meme That’s Making the Rounds.” Yes, that’s right, where I come from, the word “what” can be substituted for “that” from time to time. It drives my wife crazy.

So, I’ve been tagged by Scott @ Transformatum. The rules are:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Find the first 5 [full] sentences.
4. Post the next 3 sentences.
5. Tag 5 people.

So, here we go …

The senses are not to be discarded, but they should be expanded to their widest capacity. We see Christ rightly only when we say with Thomas: “My Lord and my God!” We have just established that the icon has a trinitarian scope, and now we must come to terms with its ontological proportions. [...]

The passage above was taken from The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

I’ll confess that Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide was technically closer, but I decided to spare y’all a dry excerpt about accessor methods in Ruby objects. Besides, I’d only pulled it out for reference purposes earlier today, while I’ve actively been reading the liturgy book.

Brian, Chad, David, Philip and Will: the torch has been passed to you. You’re it!