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World’s Great Madonnas

January 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This website is a gallery of pictures of various renderings, over the ages, of the Madonna and child. Beautiful collection.

Jan

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Goodbye, Blogger

January 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I will be moving these posts away from Blogger gradually, while setting up at WordPress with Stblogs.com. This site will remain in place, but may not be posted to regularly.
The new WordPress blog is http://staringatthesky.stblogs.com/.

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Read the Bible and the Catechism in a year

January 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is a program I found at the website www.chnetwork.org. I started trying in November. I think I’ll be finished by the summer. It breaks down the Bible and the CCC into little chunks, sometimes too small, for daily reading.
I’m using the Douay-Rheims for the Old Testament, and to make things interesting, the Vulgate for [...]

Jan

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Islamic use of Christian churches

January 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is an absolutely nasty subject. The Cafeteria is Closed summarises it neatly here.
We are away that secularism is gradually killing our Christian heritage. And I can understand if churches are opened to refugees. But when Muslim squatters claiming to pray in our churches perform such deeds as putting sheets over Christian symbols, I want [...]