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    THE SACRED LITURGY

    The Catholic Church has a liturgy that is followed at Sunday masses and other masses during the week and on special occasions. The Liturgy has its roots in ancient times goin back to apostolic times and to the centuries before Constantine tolerated Christianity within the pagan Roman empire. In...
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    Mission

    Preaching the gospel to all nations, tribes, tongues, and peoples is an indisputable mission given to all Christians and especially to all Churches. Yet it is not always a simple task to undertake and it often requires great sensitivity to culture and folk beliefs before the gospel can be...
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    A thought (or two) on unity.

    The Second council of the Vatican held in the 1960s is a life time ago for most folk on CH yet the issues raised in the council and debated by its members and also by those from other faith traditions that confess the Christian faith are still with us today and some have become more urgent...
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    I upgraded my old laptop.

    I have a Sony Vaio from 2011. It had 4 GB RAM, a 500GB HDD, and an i7 2620M. I recently upgraded its RAM to 8 GB and today I upgraded its HDD to a SSD of 500 GB. It's old HDD is now in an Inateck enclosure and I am using it as an external backup drive. The laptop is faster now. It boots in...
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    The singular, unique, one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

    Some folk complain that the Catholic Church is singular and unique as if those attributes were negative. I guess their complaint really amounts to a complaint that exactly one Church should exist rather than many denominations, meetings, groups, and churches all participating in some 'essential'...
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    Is it upgrade time yet?

    My desktop computer has a i7 2600K and 16 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD and two 1 TB HDDs and a "XFX HD5770 850M PCIe/1GB/DVI/HDMI" graphics card .... I bought it in 2011 for around AUD 1,364.75 and not I am wondering ought I to buy a new desktop PC? The one I have works well. Maybe it could do with a...
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    The meaning of "saints"

    Basing what I say in this thread upon the holy scriptures primarily and on the teaching of Christ preserved in the Catholic Church as supplemental to the holy scriptures by way of explanation and as providing a beneficial interpretive framework I want to discuss the meaning of "saints" and...
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    Jaz song implies that you either read the bible or go to hell.

    A radio announcer on one of our National Broadcaster channels (Radio National is the channel name) summarised a song by a 1920s Jaz singer as "you either read the bible or go to hell". The song was by Blind Willie Johnson. What do you think of the sentiment expressed in the song?
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    How big is your storage capacity?

    My laptop has a 512 GB HDD (soon to become an SSD). So how much does your laptop, desktop, or tablet have? Do you need more than, say, 256 GB?
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    Do you write with a pen?

    Do you write with a pen anymore? I used to. I remember recording a kind of work diary when working on an accounting system for Hamersley Mining in Perth. The accounting system was written in ADABAS/NATURAL and it was important to keep track of which modules and in which portions of them I'd...
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    Saint Pope Silvester I died 335 AD

    This is an image of the saint. Pope Sylvester I (died 31 December 335), whose name is also spelled Silvester, was pope from 31 January, 314 to his death in 335. He succeeded Pope Miltiades. He filled the See of Rome at an important era in the history of the Catholic Church, yet very little is...
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    The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas

    1 John 2:18-21 Children, these are the last days; you were told that an Antichrist must come, and now several antichrists have already appeared; we know from this that these are the last days. Those rivals of Christ came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged; if they had...
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    A Christmas Carol

    From 1951 with Alistair Sim as Scrooge this is a very good film of the story by Charles Dickens and very worth viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bih-nzhfb8s
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    Food for thought - reflecting on Ruth

    Food for Thought The Book of Ruth affirms the possibility of a non-Israelite becoming a model of a true Israelite. Ruth reappears in the genealogy of Jesus according to Matthew to emphasize this possibility. Boaz redeems Ruth, we learn in chapter 4. The fact that redemption is a financial term...
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    Zone Alarm

    I used Zone Alarm back in the 1990s and now it is back on my PC. They say it is a good firewall. it seems light-weight and unobtrusive. These are good things.
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    Theology & disputes about meaning.

    In theology many doctrines and opinions are debated sometimes very heatedly. Each side forms its arguments like troops ready for battle. In theological journals and in books the war of opinion and facts and interpretation of the facts is waged. It is rare for one side to win comprehensively but...
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    A new Calendar

    Here's a nice little video about a new calendar. This year is 12,016 HE according to the new calendar. It's an interesting idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs
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    I am groot!

    Have you seen Guardians of the Galaxy? If so, a second film is soon due for realise. Trailers feature mini-groot :) Groot manages to convey all sorts of meaning in the single phrase I am Groot, I wonder if he is related to Zathrus from Babylon 5? :P
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    A nice old film about cowboys and God :)

    I hope you watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp5fwP9s3JU
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    Have we lost the faith of our fathers?

    I had lunch with a good friend yesterday, we had some Thai food and chatted about laptop computers and technology and religion. It was almost like a conversation here in Christianity Haven. My friend is an atheist. A PhD in education and quite insightful. Some years ago he gave me an adage I've...
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