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Catholic Word of the Day: BAR, 05-26-11
CatholicReference.net ^ | 05-26-11 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 05/26/2011 9:04:17 AM PDT by Salvation

Featured Term (selected at random):

BAR

A prefix in Aramaic meaning "son," e.g., Bar-Jonah, son of Jonah; Bartholomew, son of Tolmai.

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; language
Stop laughing......this is biblical not drinking or getting drunk in a bar/tavern.
1 posted on 05/26/2011 9:04:18 AM PDT by Salvation
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To: All
Matthew 16
17
And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.


Bartimaeus would be the son of Timaeus?
 
What about Barnabas?
 
Barab'bas?
 
Barsab'bas?

2 posted on 05/26/2011 9:20:27 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Punctuation police alert!

this is biblical; not drinking or getting drunk in a bar/tavern.


3 posted on 05/26/2011 9:21:34 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: JRandomFreeper; Allegra; BlackVeil; Straight Vermonter; Cronos; SumProVita; AnAmericanMother; ...

Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.  (Would anyone like to help with this?)

 

Augustinianism

Meekness

Disposition

Pew

Authentic Interpretation

Dissimulation

Silvanus

Sacred Heart

Bar

 

 

 

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4 posted on 05/26/2011 9:27:27 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

LOL.

I was going to say....


5 posted on 05/26/2011 9:49:16 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Salvation

Son of a gun!

6 posted on 05/26/2011 9:52:25 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Never heard of those BARs before. LOL!


7 posted on 05/26/2011 2:41:57 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Mad Dawg; Salvation

I remember reading that, at the Second Vatican Council, the attendees had access to two coffee bars. One was called “Bar-Jonah,” as in “Simon Bar-Jonah,” and I forget the other ... might have been “Bar-Timaeus” or “Bar-Abbas.”


8 posted on 05/26/2011 5:32:01 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars.)
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To: Tax-chick

LOL!


9 posted on 05/26/2011 5:38:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Tax-chick; Salvation

Gotta love it.


10 posted on 05/26/2011 6:17:56 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg; Salvation

Who says our prelates don’t have a sense of humor?


11 posted on 05/26/2011 7:36:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I hear universal laughter ringing out among the stars.)
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To: Salvation

Augustinianism

Meekness Disposition

 Pew

 Authentic Interpretation

 Dissimulation

 Silvanus

Sacred Heart

Bar


Links to older "Word of the Day" threads.

12 posted on 05/26/2011 11:38:29 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Salvation
Stop laughing......this is biblical not drinking or getting drunk in a bar/tavern.

I think the Irish contingent misunderstood this.

13 posted on 05/27/2011 4:59:03 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Hating *me* won't make *you* handsome, intelligent, straight, male *or* white.)
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