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To: terycarl
>>if you'd never attend one, how do you feel competant to describe it???<<

Oh please. I can look up most everything online. Like this.

The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]

2,511 posted on 10/19/2014 4:49:12 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

Placemarker on the eternal thread


2,512 posted on 10/19/2014 4:52:31 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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