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Catholic Word of the Day: REDEMPTORISTS, 02-17-10
CatholicReference.net ^ | 02-17-10 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 02/17/2010 8:20:05 AM PST by Salvation

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REDEMPTORISTS

Members of the congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded by St. Alphonso Maria de' Liguori at Scala, Italy, in 1732. They form a clerical religious congregation engaged in the preaching and writing apostolate among the faithful, in giving parish missions and spiritual exercises and in missionary work among non-Christians.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholiclist; priests
Pray for us, St. Alphonso Liguori!
1 posted on 02/17/2010 8:20:05 AM PST by Salvation
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Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.

 

Monogamy

Sanctoral Cycle/Proper of the Saints

Prinknash

Gift of Knowledge

Nine Offices

Imputability

Thesis

Hypapante

Evangelist of Mary

Grace of God

Morality of Dancing

Priest

Henotheism

Creationism

Incommunicable Attribute

Homoousios

Credence

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Baptism

Darius

Papal Decoration

Secret Society

Laus

Humanae Personae Dignitatem

Station Days

Christian Marriage

Incarnation

Gabriel

Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes

Dead Sea

Redemptorists

 

 

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2 posted on 02/17/2010 8:26:51 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Iirc, traveling Redemptorist priests were a feature in the South when the Catholic population was smaller. Some of the parishioners in our church in Tennessee - the few who hadn’t moved in from elsewhere - remembered priests coming to do missions, outdoors standing on a truck bed.


3 posted on 02/17/2010 9:45:08 AM PST by Tax-chick (Sarah Palin is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.)
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To: All
Earlier Catholic Words of the Day


Monogamy
Sanctoral Cycle /
Proper of the Saints
Prinknash

Gift of Knowledge

Nine Offices

Imputability

Thesis

Hypapante

Evangelist of Mary


Grace of God

Morality of Dancing

Priest

Henotheism

Creationism

Incommunicable Attribute

Homoousios


Credence
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Baptism

Darius

Papal Decoration

Secret Society

Laus

Humanae Personae Dignitatem

Station Days

Christian Marriage

Incarnation

Gabriel

Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes

Dead Sea

Redemptorists





4 posted on 02/17/2010 2:32:22 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Tax-chick

What a rich history they must have there.


5 posted on 02/17/2010 7:55:08 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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