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Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
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The expression also appears in Introduction to the Devout Life.
The “Introduction” is a great book too – exceptionally readable and surprisingly current. The great Dr. is one of the treasures of the Church.
Devout Life is a marvellous book, but I don’t believe the honey/vinegar saying is included in it. It is excellent advice!
Wise words we should keep in mind, especially when we deal those who disagree with us, especially in matters ecclesiastical and/or liturgical.
Why would anyone want more flies? (Wink.)
Flies – food for bats and the play things of cats. If they are indeed flies (especially of a species akin to those annoying little fruit flies), why would one want to catch them? At the very least, open a window to let them buzz-off.
Flies–one of the original reasons for the liturgical flabella! Of course we want more!
In Christ,
We want more flies so we can get more home runs.
Btw, I was just reading an old post of Dr. Thursday’s about the Blessing of Telegraphs. It apparently includes the chanting of Psalm 103 with the antiphon, “”Blessed are You O Lord, Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds, Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.”
Fr. Z, I think we need to adapt this (including the smoke test) to a blessing of computers with Internet connections. Although I’m not sure about the “smoke test” lines. :)
Papa,
Tres bon, merci! Vous parle francais, c’nest pas?
Oddly, the way I get rid of fruit flies is by putting cider vinegar in a bowl of water and dropping a drop of dish soap in. The flies are drawn to the vinegar, and the soap does something to the surface tension of the water and makes the flies fall in a drown. I haven’t actually tried it with honey, lol, but the vinegar works quite well.
I, too, have gotten much out of Introduction to the Devout Life. I’m not sure that it has this quote, but he uses the analogy of honey and bees and vinegar in a lot of other ways! Apparently it was a favorite image for many areas of spirituality.
Here’s a couple of additional citations according to Answers.com:
Honey gets more flyes to it, than doth viniger.
[1666 G. Torriano Italian Proverbs 149]
Tart Words make no Friends: spoonful of honey will catch more flies than Gallon of Vinegar.
[1744 B. Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack (Mar.)]
Luke,
Father may speak french but your translation…should be…
Tres bien, vous parlez francais, n’est-ce pas?
Lori,
It wasn’t strictly a translation as I tried to do that from memory (I’ve only had a few french classes so far.) Thank you though, that is pretty embarrassing.
Wee, wee, moan pair.
Actually, it should be Très bien, vous parlez français, n’est-ce pas?