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Exactly, one and the same religion. Two covenants, I suppose -- the Old Covenant with the Jews which came to fullness in the New Covenant of the Blood of Christ. One religion, not two.

How could it be an "EO thing"? It's Latin... Quasimodo in Victor Hugo's novel was so named for a two-fold reason -- he was found on Quasimodo Sunday and he was "half-formed" himself.

Mine too :-D During Lent, I've given up secular music so I've been listening to Ensemble Organum and the Tallis Scholars a lot. The same secular music can get old after a while, but listening to the Gloria in Lent feels like a guilty pleasure ^_^ You get used to the Latin very quickly...

You might not want to abbreviate "Methodist" as "Meth"...

There are no concelebrants in the Traditional Mass, except at ordination Masses. In the New Mass, concelebration is allowed but there is no distinction between a Low and High Mass. So, therefore you cannot have a High Mass if you have concelebrants.

There are different ways in which a Mass can be celebrated: A Low Mass involves just the priest and at least one server. There is no choir, sometimes there is an organ. The prayers of the Mass are spoken rather than intoned. A Sung Mass (Missa Cantata), often colloquially called a "High...

To be technical, RCIA is for catechumens -- people who have not been baptized. However, most churches just put every convert into RCIA. Sometimes there are also reverts in there or people who fell away from the Church for 20 years and actually need some catechesis. It's all up to the priest...

Well, there can be no "will not" since marriage is a contract of bodily rights for acts which lead to reproduction. Or, in St. Paul's words: Obviously, people know that sex is part of marriage. I don't think that people say "I want to marry this person but I refuse to even consummate the...

Today was the last day of a series of classes before Mass on the Virtues, I took notes ^_^

I wish I had waited. When God -- the infinite good -- is taken out of the picture, the search for happiness instead relies on a series of finite goods (such as sexual pleasure, entertainment, shopping, whatever), which are never going to equal infinity. So I looked for happiness in...

I still don't understand what you mean. So one person prefers the lights on, the other prefers the lights off? One prefers sex in the morning (which indeed can be really annoying when I'm like, "Just let me sleep! I don't want to wake up yet!"), the other at night? Those seem very silly...

What does consistency form? A habit. What is a virtue? A good habit. What is a vice? A bad habit. Virtue is formed by acting consistently good. Vice is formed by acting consistently bad. So thus consistency in and of itself is neither good nor bad but can be either, depending on what you...

I find that is very true. I think I have some connection to every person I've ever slept with. Certainly, when I was in love with that person, breaking up is hard to do -- especially if you've slept together. I know I am going to bring a lot of baggage into my future (hypothetical) marriage...

Sex makes babies. Therefore sex can only be morally engaged in where there is a situation that a child can be raised properly -- that is, a stable, healthy, marriage. To engage in sex outside of marriage -- whether fornication or adultery -- is contrary to the common good, therefore it is a...

Galileo Was Wrong - Robert Sungenis John Salza is also a geocentrist. Scripture Catholic - Geocentrism It's like Catholic fideism, it's troubling.

The priest is not God, of course. But God works through the priest, just as God works through a minister who baptizes someone. A person cannot receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion until they receive the Sacrament of Penance, if they know they have committed some mortal sin (or at the very...

So Old Testament Judaism was the true religion but then God realized it was a mistake and invented another true religion to replace it?

My friend is one. I think I am going up there for the Easter Triduum. That means exchanging beautiful Solemn High Masses for NO ones, which makes me sad but I really want to support her. Her mom is even flying out and another mutual friend (my ex-bf) is taking the train over. It's an...

I thought that stood for Ave Maria. Oh, this site says it does not stand for "Ave Maria", that's a misconception. It is just a monogram of "Maria". ("MAria", like the Chi-Rho () is the first two letters of "Christ" in Greek -- "Χριστος"). I like the one...