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Living in a Pagan World

9/26/2016

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Thank you, Aquarius, for sending this article along. 
It sure offers potential help as we march through the world today!

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What Today's Christians Can Learn from Antiquity about Living in a Pagan World
Greg Scandlen
The Federalist
How Christians Took Over Rome

...But when Christians came on the scene, they changed all of this. They absolutely prohibited abortion and infanticide within their own ranks. They also prohibited homosexuality, applied the same standards of chastity and fidelity within marriage to both men and women, and gave women much higher social status than the Romans allowed.

Given these advantages, women were more likely to convert to Christianity than were men. The Christian community soon enjoyed a higher female to male ratio and actually had a surplus of marriageable women. Many of these women took pagan husbands and ended up converting them, resulting in a far higher fertility rate and a growing presence within the empire. Stark calculates that Christianity grew at a rate of 40 percent per decade in the years 40 to 350, from perhaps 1,000 believers in 40 A.D. to nearly 34 million by 350 A.D.

But another phenomenon also helped boost Christian growth: the sudden onset of two epidemics, one in 165 A.D. and the other in 251 A.D. The first was likely smallpox and the second measles. In each case, they produced devastating mortality, killing as much as 30 percent of the population each time.

The pagan response was to flee as far from infected people as possible. Even the famous physician Galen fled to his country estate in Asia Minor to wait until the danger was past. Neither pagan scientists, priests, nor philosophers had an explanation for the calamity—it was just the whim of the gods and nothing could be done about it.

But the Christian explanation was radically different. They believed God was testing and judging humans. Even though some of the faithful might die, they would also be rewarded in the afterlife for their response to the crisis. And what did God expect their response should be? He wrote it all down in Scripture: love your neighbor as yourself, care for the sick and the lame, act as the Good Samaritan acted. That is exactly what Christians did: they cared for one another even in the face of death.

The consequence of this caring could easily be seen as miraculous. As Stark writes, “Modern medical experts believe that conscientious nursing without any medications could cut the mortality rate by two-thirds or even more” (emphasis in original). This nursing could be as simple as providing hydration and nourishment until the patient recovered. As patients recovered, they would be immune from the disease and could care for the newly sick without fear...
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The Great Ark

9/18/2016

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Katy Notes:  This is a fascinating blog I have been reading today. Very very good. Just skip around and find something of interest to you....  Love, and prayers of peace to you all.

The Great Ark
Mark Mallett
The Now Word

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JESUS said that the period before His eventual return in glory would be “as it was in the days of Noah…” That is, many would be oblivious to the Storm gathering around them: “They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away.” [1] This Storm, as the Church teaches, contains the Passion of the Church, who will follow her Head in her own passage through a corporate “death” and resurrection. [2] Just as many of the “leaders” of the temple and even the Apostles themselves seemed unaware, even to the last moment, that Jesus had to truly suffer and die, so too many in the Church seem oblivious to the consistent prophetic warnings of the popes and the Blessed Mother—warnings that announce and signal a…

…final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, the Gospel and the anti-gospel… it is a trial which the whole Church… must take up. — Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (SAINT JOHN PAUL II) at the Eucharistic Congress, Philadelphia, PA; August 13, 1976...

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The Pelican

9/18/2016

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Katy sends this also, which is also from the Art of ST John Cantius (see the post below). 
Thank you, Katy!  The Pelican is Beautiful!
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One of the more striking symbols of Christ, Whose blood was shed on the Cross is and is still given to the faithful in the Eucharist to nourish us. As a Christian symbol, it derives from the legendary belief that the mother pelican would nourish her growing offspring by piercing her own breast and feeding them with her blood. This image is also recorded in the Latin Eucharistic hymn of St. Thomas Aquinas, Adoro Te Devote, where Jesus is called “pie pellicane, Iesu Domine” (O holy Pelican, Lord Jesus).
The Art of ST John Cantius
ST John Cantius Church
ST Cloud Minnesota

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The Art of ST John Cantius

9/11/2016

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Thank you, Katy!  The stained glass windows are beautiful and the descriptions so interesting.  Please visit for more:

The Art of ST John Cantius
ST John Cantius Church
ST Cloud Minnesota

Works of art and beauty have adorned the places of Christian worship from the earliest days. Already in the catacombs of first century Rome, we find Christian symbols and depictions of Christ the Good Shepherd, the Holy Spirit, Mary, and various martyrs. Paintings, stained glass, statues, and other forms of art are tied to the mystery of the Incarnation: in Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, the invisible love, truth, and beauty of God are made visible to us. Art engages our imagination through the senses, and can lead us to God, Whose perfect Beauty is reflected in creation.

Saint John Cantius Church contains many treasures of Christian beauty in sign and symbol, particularly in the stained glass windows...
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