6/14 For example, suppose I earn a year of indulgence: I set it down in my account-book and say, 'Most Blessed Father and Lord St.Dominic, please see if there is anybody in purgatory who needs exactly a year--neither a day more nor a day less.' Then I play heads and tails: if it comes heads, no; if tails, yes. Let's suppose that it comes tails, then I write down _paid_; if it comes heads, then I keep the indulgence. In this way I arrange groups of a hundred years each, of which I keep a careful account. It's a pity that we can't do with them as with money--put them out at interest, for in that way we should be able to save more souls. Believe me, and do as I do." "Well, I do it a better way," remarked Sister Sipa. |