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by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 68
Views: 1046

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

Reroute truck traffic to I-81 and I-270/70/76. A certain poster has assured me that all young people and other vibrant individuals required to run an economy want to live in cities like Baltimore so they can just stay there and be self sufficient, since out in the hinterlands nobody wants to live a...
by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:09 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 68
Views: 1046

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

A crane arrives tonight. Job 1 is to free the ship, which is actually grounded as well as stuck under the wreckage of the bridge. In short, a mess. Some the containers that were breached contain hazardous materials, so they are getting them involved. Politicians are squabbling, as they do. My new pr...
by Judas Maccabeus
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper
Replies: 75
Views: 1832

Re: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper

It's seeming like Mass is a weekly duty but communion is an annual duty. Is that about the size of it? I don't think MaxPC said at all that communion is a weekly duty did he? I don't know how else to parse this: The obligation to attend Sunday Mass and take Holy Communion weekly became Church law i...
by Judas Maccabeus
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper
Replies: 75
Views: 1832

Re: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper

MaxPC, weekly communion wasn’t instituted until fairly recently, mostly due to pressure from Protestants doing it. I believe Pope Leo made the change in the early 1900s. The obligation to attend Sunday Mass and take Holy Communion weekly became Church law in the 4th century. This blog seems to say ...
by Judas Maccabeus
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper
Replies: 75
Views: 1832

Re: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper

My understanding was that one was only required to take communion, following confession of course, once within the period between Easter and Pentecost, one’s so called “Easter Duty.” If I remember correctly, since the Mass is a “sacrifice” one cannot have a Mass without communion. Since the 4th cen...
by Judas Maccabeus
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper
Replies: 75
Views: 1832

Re: Questions about Communion / Lord's Supper

You have avoided discussion of the issue of Easter Duty. Could you explain it, or maybe I will.
by Judas Maccabeus
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Catholic to Anabaptist
Replies: 54
Views: 1363

Re: Catholic to Anabaptist

JayP: .. I would observe some of my Jewish friends are similar. Some are quite serious about their Judaism. Others simply born to it and know little. They aren’t the same group of people. i think i follow your thinking, and i don’t disagree wiith it, however, for purposes of this topic, it’s not a ...
by Judas Maccabeus
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
Replies: 68
Views: 1046

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse

I'm not an engineer and therefore not an expert on any of this. But I'm not imagining how they could put up a temporary bridge for a span this wide. Temporary bridges would make sense for a small river or something where you can just drop a truss in place until you get a better bridge made. But thi...
by Judas Maccabeus
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:17 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: recommendations for cars/suv
Replies: 40
Views: 564

Re: recommendations for cars/suv

so what's your recommendation for a good used vehicle? either a 4 door car or an suv, small to mid size and why do you recommend that one? I might turn the question around and start from the other end. First find the person/ shop who will be doing the maintenance and repair and find out which vehic...
by Judas Maccabeus
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:56 am
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology
Replies: 23
Views: 729

Re: Books on Anabaptist History and Theology

The theory that Anabaptism had many origins, and is in fact ancient, tracing perhaps to the apostles. Books like Brodbent's "The Pilgrim Church" and Kennedy's "Torch of the Testimony" give this theory. It is more recent. The other predominant theory is that Anabaptism if of Zuri...