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Arm of Crucified Jesus Sheared Off by Earthquake (Catholic Caucus)
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| 08/25/2011
| Penny Starr
Posted on 08/25/2011 11:55:55 AM PDT by Pyro7480
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I am quite familiar with this place. It is the oldest Catholic parish in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
![](http://www.cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/images/crucifix%202.jpg?1314292913)
Large crucifix at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va., damaged by the 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Aug. 23. (Photo: Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
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posted on
08/25/2011 11:56:02 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
To: Siobhan; Canticle_of_Deborah; NYer; Salvation; american colleen; Desdemona; StAthanasiustheGreat; ..
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posted on
08/25/2011 11:57:12 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Pyro7480
Dang.
Still, it's "only" a statue and a building.
The parishoners will rebuild and repair.
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posted on
08/25/2011 11:59:28 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Pyro7480; tx_eggman
O NOES! It’s a sign that we should all turn from our right-leaning ways and join the liberals on the left to usher in the age of true world peace.
</heavysarc>
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:02:37 PM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
To: Pyro7480
No. The Crucified Christ DID NOT lose an arm, a statue did.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:12:22 PM PDT
by
svcw
To: Pyro7480
The scripture always speaks of God's outstretched arm. Bible study time... Check this out...
'outstretched arm'
Notice it doesn't say arms.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:13:01 PM PDT
by
BigFinn
(Always drink upstream from the herd.)
To: Pyro7480
Or as al jizzera reports it: Christ disarmed by allah...
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:13:39 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 944 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: svcw
Catholic Caucus...just saying.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:14:59 PM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Pyro7480
To: BigFinn
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:16:00 PM PDT
by
BigFinn
(Always drink upstream from the herd.)
To: Pyro7480
Pyro why is this a Catholic Caucus thread?
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:18:11 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Perry 2012! A Conservative who can win!)
To: Artemis Webb
Because this shouldn’t become a theological discussion between iconodules and iconoclasts.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:19:17 PM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Pyro7480
Reasonable answer...thanks. :)
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:21:18 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Perry 2012! A Conservative who can win!)
To: Pyro7480
Ok. It is sad that the statue was damaged, I find the headline objectionable however. Sorry.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:22:04 PM PDT
by
svcw
To: Sacajaweau; miele man; the invisib1e hand; tarotsailor; WashingtonSource; hinckley buzzard; ...
Following up on comments from earlier threads, the symbolism of the recent east coast earthquake grows for those who wish to see it that way. The spires of the national cathedral, the Washington monument, and a statue of the crucified Christ in the oldest Catholic parish in the original founding colony.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:29:21 PM PDT
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: Pyro7480
Happened to notice on the parish web site:
The regular 10:00 a.m. Mass on the first Sunday of the month is celebrated in Latin. This form of Mass is the regular Mass most Catholics are used to (Novus Ordo, or Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite), only celebrated in Latin
Never understood why a parish would choose to do that (as opposed to a Tridentine Mass).
Anyway, may the church be protected from future calamity (nature and human-caused), including the coming hurricane.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:31:01 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
To: americanophile
Yeah. Wait ‘til Irene hits Washington. *sigh*
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:36:18 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 944 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: americanophile
Make that “unexpectedly” hits Washington...
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:36:56 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 944 of America's holiday from reality...)
To: steve86
They used to have the TLM twice a month until last summer, when the priest who offered was reassigned to be the parochial vicar of a new parish, where he continues to do the same there.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:40:37 PM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Pyro7480
...damage seems symbolic of Christs devotion to holding up the church in times of trouble....
&&&
I like that view.
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posted on
08/25/2011 12:41:30 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Palin in 2012)
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