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Salvation history: my new home on the internet

January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A Dr. Scott Hahn project and therefore a mine of useful information on everything Christian. Includes one of the best classified lists of links I’ve seen. I wish they were in tree format, since you have to click through several nodes to get to a file, but I’m not complaining. When I bump into amazing [...]

Jan

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What is ‘Sabaoth’?

January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“Sabaoth is one of those Hebrew words which were left untranslated in the earliest Latin version of the Holy Scriptures, called the Vetus Itala, and has been preserved in three places in the translation by St. Jerome. Sabaoth is a plural, and signifies ‘armies’. As the Roman Missal has always followed the ancient Italic version, [...]

Jan

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On the use of sacred images and On kneeling

January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

This from Hierurgia: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, again, authored by Daniel Rock D.D.:
“The use of Images in the house of God, is authorized by Scripture. Moses was commanded to place the images of two Cherubim upon the Ark; and Solomon ‘carved all the walls of the Temple round about with divers figures and [...]

Jan

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What’s an ‘ostensorium’?

January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is a term I discovered in my reading of the old book Hierurgia, which I mentioned before. It refers to the monstrance, the receptacle used for the Blessed Sacrament during Benediction.

Jan

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Chesterton on Evolution

January 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

I’m new to Chesterton, and I’m hooked. That’s why I’m glad I discovered the Gilbert magazine and this article. The text notwithstanding, the illustrations make for a beautiful antique-looking website.

Jan

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Traditional Catholic things

January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Gifts.
I found the link to this site automatically provided in the upper left of this blog by Google (really?) The advertisement said pre-Vatican II statues and things, so I became curious. It seems that ‘pre-Vatican II’ things are good, their front page has an amazing statue of Our Lady of [...]

Jan

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What is it with the ‘resurrifix’?

January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The pseudo-crucifix, where the figure portrayed is a rising Christ, rather than a crucified Christ. It appears to be an innovation of the post Conciliar period, again. Here are two blog posts, one from Fr. Erik with his Orthometer, the other from the Dominican Idaho:
1. the Orthometer
2. Dominican Idaho
Let’s bring our crucifixes back, please.

Jan

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Behold the League of Warm and Fuzzy Traditionalists

January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

With Sir Bunny, the Crusader Rabbit. Visit here.
‘Sir Bunny’ is only my rather not-clever name for the new hero of traditional Catholicism.

Jan

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Bible map dot org

January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I tried hard to see the Holy Land with Wikimapia, the best I could do was find Jerusalem. Now, there’s BibleMap.org. Now I can at last map regions like Samaria and old Turkey (referred to in Acts as Asia) in my mind.

Jan

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Review of the Passion

January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

By far, one of the best reviews of the Passion of the Christ. I’m glad I found it. Your link. The Last Word, by Jody Dean. There’s a lot of good at the Wittenburg Door.

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