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25th September 2006, 03:22 PM
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To see more pictures go to Cardinal O'Malley's blog http://www.cardinalseansblog.org/?p=169
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25th September 2006, 03:33 PM
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25th September 2006, 04:00 PM
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Reps: 94,237,541,192,243,584 (power: 94,237,541,192,261) | | Originally Posted by ProCommunioneFacior
Wowza. Beautiful pictures. When I found out the image behind the altar is a mosaic, I had to do a double take. That is one of the finest mosaics I have ever seen.
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25th September 2006, 05:49 PM
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25th September 2006, 07:52 PM
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25th September 2006, 08:13 PM
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25th September 2006, 08:21 PM
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25th September 2006, 10:12 PM
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26th September 2006, 12:04 AM
|  | I'm an ultra-traditionalist, run for your life ;) 31 
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Reps: 2,161,877,158,700,854 (power: 2,161,877,158,721) | | Originally Posted by Irenaeus In many churches in Rome, to celebrate ad orientem is basically the only way to do it...many of the altars are absolutely set in wall and floor and there is no room to do it any other way.
If only that was the case here in the US...
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