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Recent content by FLMike

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    Sacred music internet broadcast

    In that case, welcome (indirectly) to the Choral Treasure Forums. :) We hope they will become an important site for discussing anything related to the preservation and fostering of the musical tradition of the universal Church.
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    Gregorian Chants

    Just to add one bit of information for the OP, on recordings one will sometimes see (IN), (OF), (CO), etc, in the track listing for a particular chant. These markings indicate which type of Proper the marked chant is (IN = Introit, etc).
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    Sacred music internet broadcast

    Thanks, I missed that thread -- don't know how. Unfortunately the stream won't work on dialup. The audio is being delivered at 64kbps which is about twice what a dialup can support.
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    Sacred music internet broadcast

    I hope this is OK to post here (it's non-commercial and I think of interest). We have started a 24-hour internet broadcast of Catholic sacred music (think chant and polyphony) at www.live365.com/stations/vocideltesoro Apologies if this isn't appropriate for this forum.
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    Jimmy Akin is on Fox news now

    My impression is that there are no requirements, it's just a matter of acclamation. If everybody decides he should be called "The Great" and does so then the title attaches itself to him.
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    How to deal with negativity and insults against the Pope

    I've already seen some protestants on different sites declare that they think he's in hell (you know, false gospel, worshipping Mary, etc). Sigh. They know not what they do.
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    "Behold your son"

    No, I really can't imagine this. Jesus has brothers who don't believe in His ministry, yet those same brothers are going to let their Mother go and live with a close follower of this very ministry they don't believe in? The very fact that John is a "close follower" of this ministry they don't...
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    "Behold your son"

    "Behold" has conotations of perceiving, comprehending. It is indeed, IMO, a stretch to suggest that Mary would have needed to be told to perceive or comprehend her son, and vice versa. But you didn't answer what is probably the most important question, which is how do you know the beloved...
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    "Behold your son"

    If they didn't believe in His ministry, why in the world would they let Him give their own mother over to one of His followers, and a person who was not related to her? I can't imagine it.
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    "Behold your son"

    Why do you believe John was Jesus' brother? I have never heard anybody claim this before. Why, if he was, did Jesus feel the need to conduct such an obvious piece of family business there on the cross, just moments from death? And why is it recorded in scripture? Note that Jesus didn't say...
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    The history of American anti-Catholicism

    That's how I understand it -- the populace was very Catholic, and rather brutal measures were needed over the decades and centuries were needed to change that. BTW, Cardinal Newman's discussion on the state of Catholics in England is worth reading...
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    The history of American anti-Catholicism

    Well we all know that the English never invaded or subjugated anybody, which is why the sun never set on the...hmmm, maybe I should rethink this... ;) (and I say this as a Catholic Anglophile :thumbsup: )
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    "Behold your son"

    My point is, this was not "in advance". It seems very odd to conduct such a piece of business from the cross, at the crucial moment of salvation history. Would Jesus really have waited until He was dying on the cross simply to remember to make sure His mother had a place to live? Does that...
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    "Behold your son"

    OK, now I understand your question. Why would Jesus, at such a climactic time in salvation history, dying on the cross, state something so obvious to all present? Not only obvious, but, frankly, trivial. "Mom, behold your son John. John, behold your mom." And why would Mary only at that...
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    "Behold your son"

    I agree. Further, it seems to me that if He did have brothers, the brothers would have forbidden their mother from living with John, for the reason you give. And poor John would have been put in an impossible spot (obey Christ and be a party to breaking up Mary's family? obey Jewish custom...
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