Posted on 04/16/2009 3:18:40 PM PDT by tcg
What occurred at Georgetown University is one of those symbolic moments in history which speaks beyond any single incident. The administration literally covered over the Cross of Christ and the “I.H.S.”, both of which were engraved on the backdrop against which the President spoke on the Gaston Hall stage. The reaction to this censorship of Christian signs at a Catholic University was immediate. The associate Vice President of Communications of Georgetown gave her spin: "In coordinating the logistical arrangements for yesterday's event, Georgetown honored the White House staff's request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind Gaston Hall stage… The White House wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they've done for other policy speeches… Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn't high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context."
Out of context? This is a Catholic University! It is clear what was done, the symbol of Christian faith was covered over! The University could have refused!...
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
Did it deny the Faith? Yes.
Doesn’t this symbol stand for IN HOC SIGNA, the words that were used in the Crusades against Muslims, that in the sign of the Cross they would win?
Out of all the places the WH could have chosen for a speech they chose there...for a reason. So that he can demonstrate to Islam that even Christianity shows obeisance to him.
What is going on with these Catholic educators? They’re allowing political ideology to replace symbols of their, and our salvation. Shameful.
I know I will probably get flamed for this but...
this is just another in a growing list of things that have kept me from stepping inside the Catholic Church. And yes... I do believe that I have not left the church but the church left me.
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This is madness. These are the leaders of an institution that’s supposed to exhibit strength, moral character, and integrity yet they give a voice to a baby-killer while they cover up the name of God.
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No. It stands for the Holy Name itself, rendered in Greek letters. The Jesuit order makes much of this emblem because it takes the name of the Savior into its own: the Society of Jesus.
The letters are generally thought to be the early Greek abbreviation for the name Jesus Christ (in Greek, of course) which then came back into use in the Latin Church with the development of devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, which was around the time of the founding of the Jesuits. That’s the reason this symbol was so much used in Jesuit institutions.
Leave it to Obama to say that he won’t speak there unless they deny their faith.
Knights Templar - In Hoc Signo Vinces
The phrase means “in this sign you shall conquer” and was used by Constantine as a military motto in the early 4th Century. The phrase was also used by the original Knights Templar military order that was founded during the Crusades. The Freemasons began using Templar rituals and symbols in the late 1700s.
What was it Jesus said at the Last Supper? “One of you here will Deny Me.”...........looks like the abettors at GTU are gonna burn in hell.
Many people say that, but the Catholic Church is still there. The sad thing now is that you have to find the right priest and the right church; once upon a time, you could have walked into any church and had the priest tell you the right thing, but after 40 years of heresy, this is no longer a certainty.
What diocese do you live in?
Jesuits in general and Georgetown in particular left the Catholic faith long ago. I graduated from 2 different Jesuit schools, but that was long ago. I wouldn’t ave anything to so with them today.
My question is why did he want to make the speech at Georgetown in the first place?
No. A monogram of the name of Jesus Christ. From the third century the names of our Saviour are sometimes shortened, particularly in Christian inscriptions (IH and XP, for Jesus and Christus). In the next century the “sigla” (chi-rho) occurs not only as an abbreviation but also as a symbol. From the beginning, however, in Christian inscriptions the nomina sacra, or names of Jesus Christ, were shortened by contraction, thus IC and XC or IHS and XPS for Iesous Christos. These Greek monograms continued to be used in Latin during the Middle Ages. Eventually the right meaning was lost, and erroneous interpretation of IHS led to the faulty orthography “Jhesus”. In Latin the learned abbreviation IHC rarely occurs after the Carlovingian era. The monogram became more popular after the twelfth century when St. Bernard insisted much on devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, and the fourteenth, when the founder of the Jesuati, Blessed John Colombini (d. 1367), usually wore it on his breast. Towards the close of the Middle Ages IHS became a symbol, quite like the chi-rho in the Constantinian period. In hoc signo vinces is the rendition in Latin of the Greek phrase “εν τούτω νίκα”, en toutÅ nika, meaning “in this [sign] you will conquer”. According to legend, Constantine I adopted this Greek phrase, “εν τούτω νίκα”, as a motto after his vision of a chi rho on the sky just before the Battle of Milvian Bridge against Maxentius in the year 312. The early Christian symbol consists in a monogram composed of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P), the first two in the name Christ (Greek: Χριστός) From the Catholic Encyclopedia and Wiki.
See post #4
That's exactly why he did it. And he found a bunch of Judases willing to turn over Our Lord and the Church to him.
I'm really beginning to think he's the Antichrist. I always thought the Antichrist would be intelligent and I ruled out Obama because he's dumb as a post. But ambition, ruthlessness and ego make up for intelligence any day.
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