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Mel Gibson and the Maccabees
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| Dec 8th, 2004
Posted on 12/08/2004 11:31:33 AM PST by missyme
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To: wideawake
So was the crucifixion. And there has never been a more beautiful act. This was the OT reading at Mass a month or two ago. So much was cut out of the story that it was impossible to understand.
The details are important because the mother is clearly a type for Mary, especially considering the fact that she sacrifices her seven (the number representing perfection) sons.
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:18:52 AM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Aquinasfan
Indeed. My pastor, who offers both the New Rite and the indult Old Rite, went over this parallelism specifically in his homily.
This reading was the narrative model for all subsequent martyrologies.
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posted on
12/09/2004 10:44:39 AM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: Chaffer
I Loved the PASSION!
I saw it twice it was the most awesome movie ever....
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posted on
12/09/2004 11:29:59 AM PST
by
missyme
To: All
What's all the fuss about? You don't like a movie or director, don't go see it. I'm not crazy about Mel Gibson's direction---I like the other Mel (Brooks) better.
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posted on
12/09/2004 2:24:34 PM PST
by
julymoon
(Two Mels)
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Note: this topic is from deep in the FRchives.
Blast from the Past.
Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.
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posted on
06/09/2013 6:48:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Red Badger
The menorah is the least significant element of the story of the rededication of the altar.
Its funny how movies always seem to focus on some almost insignificant facet of the real story.
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posted on
06/09/2013 6:53:24 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: ElkGroveDan
The selucids were definitely not relativists.
They were unalterably opposed to the worship of YEHOVA, and demanded that only Zeus be worshipped. That was the total issue, and the reason that Antiochus sacrificed a boar on the altar.
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posted on
06/09/2013 6:59:44 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Austin Willard Wright
This guy likes "Signs?" That movie was a yawner.Along with everything else M. Night Shyamalan does.
M. Night was supposed to be the successor to Alfred Hitchcock.
now really, not even close!
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posted on
10/06/2017 7:30:15 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: missyme
"My Glorious Brothers" is an excellent book to read. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and probably read it again at least once a year.
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posted on
10/06/2017 7:38:52 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
To: missyme
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posted on
10/06/2017 7:50:12 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: missyme
” believing that dissenters from their “tolerance” deserved to be suppressed.”
Why does that sound familiar?
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posted on
10/06/2017 7:52:10 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Two scoops, two genders, two terms. Get used to it.)
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