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Instead of marking the excommunication of Martin Luther as something to revel in, how about we celebrate the birth of this great man?
1 posted on 01/03/2011 11:50:44 AM PST by Pyro7480
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Catholic ping!


2 posted on 01/03/2011 11:54:08 AM PST by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480

In an article he wrote about Tolkein, Jonah Goldberg noted that the good professor thought that English literature written after Chaucer was too frivolous.


3 posted on 01/03/2011 11:54:25 AM PST by sinanju
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...and he doesn’t look a day over 114...


4 posted on 01/03/2011 11:54:26 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Pyro7480

Or you could revel in my son’s birthday. 16yo today.


5 posted on 01/03/2011 11:57:55 AM PST by DManA
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To: Pyro7480

My favorite author.

And we are indebted to his son Christopher Tolkien for dedicating much of his life to sharing his father’s unpublished work. Without those works that have been published since Tolkien’s death, we would only have guessed at the level of complexity and completeness which lay beneath the Lord of the Rings universe, and the extent to which that universe was a proving ground for Tolkien’s rich ideas about religion and philosophy.


10 posted on 01/03/2011 12:06:46 PM PST by CaptainMorgantown
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To: Pyro7480

As every year goes by, my esteem for CS Lewis grows less and less........

Tolkien? Me gusta mucho!!!


11 posted on 01/03/2011 12:12:53 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Pyro7480

Eleventy-nineth birthday.


15 posted on 01/03/2011 1:16:43 PM PST by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground - the Hogwarts of Stupid.)
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To: Pyro7480

Eleventy nine already!


16 posted on 01/03/2011 1:28:26 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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[T]he chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis . . . . We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendour....

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Thank you so much for posting this. I had never seen those words from Tolkien before.


17 posted on 01/03/2011 2:54:03 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Pyro7480
"Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest")

I read the books but never seen these words from Tolkien

Happy Birthday Mr. Tolkien with our Lord and Angels!

20 posted on 01/03/2011 6:07:22 PM PST by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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