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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Beautiful shot of the dome of the Pantheon, Father. Did you have a sore neck afterwards? ;-)
I dunno… I look at that, and the first thing that comes to mind is:
Quid tu facis, Dave?
Jeff Pinyan:
It took me a minute to get the reference. Orthodox Catholicism meets science fiction. I don’t like acronyms or shortcuts but I have to say you did have me laughing.
Pax.
That spot is the best place to be when it snows in Rome.
sheesh, after more than 20 centuries, you’d think they’d find a way to patch that hole. dang contractors. ;)
Woooow!….Sooo… that’s… what a black hole looks like..!!
Cool!!
Roman Optometrist to Fr. Zuhlsdorf:
“Father… when you mentioned that you were extremely impressed with the Catholic Churches of Rome, I never really expected you to be AS IMPRESSED as you actually are!
“You have the most extraordinary Retina’s I’ve ever seen!
“However, as a precaution…I have to warn you: You absolutely MUST WEAR SUN GLASSES if you’re thinking about visiting the Sistine Chapel!!”
I’m reminded of the first thought I had when walking into the Pantheon while on a choir tour in Italy.
When I entered I thought to myself, if a priest of the type I had been dealing with had been assigned that parish, he would have walked in, taken one look, and said, “Better have a capital campaign to get that roof fixed.”
“Ille hic est Raffael, timuit quo sospite vinci, rerum magna parens et moriente mori.”
Nice picture, Father. The dome looks so much better now that it is cleaned.
[LOL’s @ Jeff Pinyan.]
The model of the Pantheon is a great way to keep priests from wanting an altar right in the middle of the church. LOL.
Amen to the Roman Sacristan!
Fom Wikipedia: “The exact composition of the Roman concrete used in the dome remains a mystery. An unreinforced dome in these proportions made of modern concrete would hardly stand the load of its own weight, since concrete has very low tensile strength, yet the Pantheon has stood for centuries. It is known from Roman sources that their concrete is made up of a pasty hydrate of lime, with pozzolanic ash (Latin pulvis puteolanum) and lightweight pumice from a nearby volcano, and fist-sized pieces of rock. In this, it is very similar to modern concrete. The high tensile strength appears to come from the way the concrete was applied in very small amounts and then was tamped down after every application to remove excess water and trapped air bubbles. This appears to have increased its strength enormously.”