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WESTMALLE 8th of November in the Year of our Lord 1512 <\/p>\n
In what was termed a \u201cdemoralizing defeat,” the Belgian La-Cross team from the Abdij van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Heilig Hart lost the Annual La-Cross Championship of the Order of Saint Benedict last Saturday to the monks of Downside Abbey. “Not that we are any less moral now,” added Father Philip Nathan\u00ebl Koninkxf\u00f8llekrimscheriner, captain of the Belgian team. <\/p>\n
The English champions are believed to have benefited from the home-monastery advantage as well as superior technique and coordination in the newest sport to hit the Holy Roman Empire: La-Cross.<\/p>\n
The Crusaders<\/em> of Westmalle\u2019s Abbey are a newer team, formed only in 1508. One of their more recently-initiated, Brother Mikael, was given a penalty for using an \u201cIllegal Cross\u201d when he tried to play with a crucifix roughly his height. It has been suggested that their Cistercian Vows of Silence contributed to problems in communication and coordination on the pitch. No players were available for comment, as they left promptly following the match to sail back to Belgium for evening mass and vespers.<\/p>\n The Old Gregorians<\/em> of Downside Abbey in Bath \u201creaped what they sowed\u201d (Galatians 6:7) in pre-season training. The Old Gregorians\u2019<\/em> Father James Peter-Paul John-Simon commented, \u201cOur lives at Downside are defined by discipline and manual labor, which clearly has advantages for our lives on Earth as well as for our eternal souls in Heaven.\u201d The team overcame several obstacles to win the championship, including the absence of star player Brother Brutus Splynty, who is currently being investigated for allegations of impure actions towards a child at the Downside School, the Abbey\u2019s affiliated primary school.<\/p>\n When asked for comment, Father James said only, \u201cOne can only love God perfectly once one has learned to fear God completely.\u201d The Old Gregorians<\/em> appear to have internalized this message, as the team received no fewer than 14 penalties for \u201cCross Checking\u201d and \u201cUnnecessary Roughness\u201d on their way to victory.<\/p>\n At press time, Pope Julius II\u2019s only remark on the outcome of the match was a general reminder to \u201ckeep the Cross in La-Cross, my children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Willamina Groething Feb. 1, 2015 WESTMALLE 8th of November in the Year of our Lord 1512 In what was termed a \u201cdemoralizing defeat,” the Belgian La-Cross team from the Abdij van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van het Heilig Hart lost the Annual La-Cross Championship of the Order of Saint Benedict last Saturday to the monks of Downside Abbey. “Not that we are any less moral now,” added Father Philip Nathan\u00ebl Koninkxf\u00f8llekrimscheriner, captain of the Belgian team. The English champions are believed to have benefited from the home-monastery advantage as well as superior technique and coordination in the newest sport to hit the Holy Roman Empire: La-Cross. The Crusaders of Westmalle\u2019s Abbey are a newer team, formed only in 1508. One of their more recently-initiated, Brother Mikael, was given a penalty for using an \u201cIllegal Cross\u201d when he tried to play with a crucifix roughly his height. It has been suggested that their Cistercian Vows of Silence contributed to problems in communication and coordination on the pitch. No players were available for comment, as they left promptly following the match to sail back to Belgium for evening mass and vespers. The Old Gregorians of Downside Abbey in Bath \u201creaped what they sowed\u201d (Galatians 6:7) in pre-season training. The Old Gregorians\u2019 Father James Peter-Paul John-Simon commented, \u201cOur lives at Downside are defined by discipline and manual labor, which clearly has advantages for our lives on Earth as well as for our eternal souls in Heaven.\u201d The team overcame several obstacles to win the championship, including the absence of star player Brother Brutus Splynty, who is currently being investigated for allegations of impure actions towards a child at the Downside School, the Abbey\u2019s affiliated primary school. When asked for comment, Father James said only, \u201cOne can only love God perfectly once one has learned to fear God completely.\u201d The Old Gregorians appear to have internalized this message, as the team received no fewer than 14 penalties for \u201cCross Checking\u201d and \u201cUnnecessary Roughness\u201d on their way to victory. At press time, Pope Julius II\u2019s only remark on the outcome of the match was a general reminder to \u201ckeep the Cross in La-Cross, my children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}