Ejaculations
When I was a kid in our parish church religion classes in the 1950s, we were told by the nuns and priests to offer frequent ejaculations to Jesus and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yep, ejaculations! Ejaculating was especially appropriate when we weren't able to devote extended time to prayer. A short ejaculation would be a fine and pious thing to do.
An ejaculation was a kind of espresso prayer. A typical one would be "Blessed be the most holy name of Jesus without end."
As I grew older the term took on for most of us its more common gonadal sense, and in looking back at all my seminal Sunday-school training wherein we were instructed to ejaculate often and with humility and piety, I had to grin. Gee, I could have told the sisters and fathers how there was no need to encourage me to ejaculate frequently. Hell, I would have done it anyway, much more than you requested! It was no penance at all, and I was so glad you were encouraging this lovely treat as a spiritual exercise! You can give me an A+.
The website for Catholic Culture verifies this piety. I just checked. But I don't think, especially in the last several decades, that priests and religion teachers have been advising youngsters to offer ejaculations. Not any more. Not under that term. Nope. The era of flowing ejaculations has climaxed and subsided.
An ejaculation was a kind of espresso prayer. A typical one would be "Blessed be the most holy name of Jesus without end."
As I grew older the term took on for most of us its more common gonadal sense, and in looking back at all my seminal Sunday-school training wherein we were instructed to ejaculate often and with humility and piety, I had to grin. Gee, I could have told the sisters and fathers how there was no need to encourage me to ejaculate frequently. Hell, I would have done it anyway, much more than you requested! It was no penance at all, and I was so glad you were encouraging this lovely treat as a spiritual exercise! You can give me an A+.
The website for Catholic Culture verifies this piety. I just checked. But I don't think, especially in the last several decades, that priests and religion teachers have been advising youngsters to offer ejaculations. Not any more. Not under that term. Nope. The era of flowing ejaculations has climaxed and subsided.