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To: Publius
And one of my favorites - easily within my voice. Sadly, I have had no opportunity to sing it in a liturgy. It's not part of the Catholic tradition, at least auf Deutsch, and I refuse to render it in English.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"
This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."

31 posted on 12/20/2014 6:29:36 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

It’s one of those situations where the Lutherans have an advantage.


33 posted on 12/20/2014 6:31:22 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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