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It is important to understand that Hebrew does not have superlatives, "good, better, best," etc, so when they wanted to say that someone was the best, or the greatest, or whatnot, they would say "blank is blank among the blanks". For example, they couldn't say "Tom Brady is...

My understanding of the current status: The Old Covenant is not salvific, but the Jews remain God's chosen people in a way that the rest of us are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersessionism seems to me to be accurate.

That is my thought process, at least.

She may well be dealing with ADD. Don't expect her to focus on anything for a long time, and don't think that calling her out will help. Go in bite-sized doses.

Doom wrote: ↑Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:16 pm I forgot about that; it was Pius XII who allowed an evening Mass. Is there a reason for the restriction beyond trying to make it more difficult to go to Mass?

It's probably connected to the fast from midnight, if I had to guess.

It is widely believed (with evidence) that the current patriarch of Moscow was on the KGB payroll back in the day.

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:17 am But given the time that daily Mass is usually held, from as early as noon to as late as 5 PM, a daily communicant could be fasting for as much as 18 hours a day. That seems unreasonable.

It was also forbidden to celebrate Mass after noon.

I did.

anawim wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 3:48 am

For 30 A.D.: May 06 Jun 04 Nov 28
For 33 A.D.: Apr 03 Sep 27

So do any of those 5 dates coincide with the Sabbath?

April 3, A.D. 30.

I was wrong about the new moon thing; eclipses are of course (duh) a full moon thing. And I found old eclipse dates:

Old eclipse dates.
For 30 A.D.: May 06 Jun 04 Nov 28
For 33 A.D.: Apr 03 Sep 27

I looked for ancient dates for lunar eclipses and couldn't find them.

Jimmy Akin on the date of the Crucifixion: https://www.catholic.com/audio/caf/the-accurate-date-of-the-crucifixion TL;DR: 33 A.D. is the traditional date. 30 A.D. is a more recent proposal and probably the current majority position. No other years are reasonably possible. Opinions don't follow denom...

Never mind. I had a case of the stupids.

It's going to take a lot of maneuvering to make it happen. Might as well plant the seeds now.

Until 1953, one had to abstain from food and water from midnight before receiving Communion. In 1953, Pope Pius XII allowed water, and a few years later he shortened the timespan for food to three hours. Pope St. Paul VI reduced it to one hour in 1964. This is why the mandate to receive Communion at...

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We're supposed to get a lot of snow tonight!

From what I can tell, it dates to the 1930s (maybe 1932). I saw one site that says "late 1800s", but no one else agrees. Most sites link it to the founding of the Catholic Medical Association, formally established in 1932.

I don't think they're novelties.

My understanding is that the pagan Romans abandoned such children.