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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Dies Irae:

“THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day,
shall heaven and earth in ashes lay,
as David and the Sybil say.”

The Sybils were ancient pagan mystics that supposedly foretold the future, albeit with drugs and trances.
Why would a mass for the dead put David and A Sybil together?

Oh I know! The pagan mystics and philosophers were also sources of divine revelation per the Catholic Church. Right.

8,365 posted on 10/03/2010 1:12:22 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
Why would a mass for the dead put David and A Sybil together?

The Sibylline oracles have rather a complicated history, but have at it!

8,374 posted on 10/03/2010 2:00:36 PM PDT by maryz
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To: count-your-change; RnMomof7; Quix; 1000 silverlings; OLD REGGIE
“THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day, shall heaven and earth in ashes lay, as David and the Sybil say.”

The Sybils were ancient pagan mystics that supposedly foretold the future, albeit with drugs and trances. Why would a mass for the dead put David and A Sybil together?

Oh I know! The pagan mystics and philosophers were also sources of divine revelation per the Catholic Church. Right.

Fascinating. A Roman Catholic mass unites David with a pagan mystic, a Sybil. The things we learn on the Religion Forum...

From Wikipedia...

Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) is a famous thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano...The poem describes the day of judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames. The hymn is best known from its use as a sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass.

8,446 posted on 10/03/2010 6:16:10 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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