CharlesW

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You will notice that the "Jew" never named the pharaoh at the time. Also, how long after the event was it written down and could the account have been altered in the retelling over time? We don't really know who that "Jew"…

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women singing the propers - arguments and documents supporting the practice
In many places, our individual music lobby may not have enough people to be that picky. We take what we can get.

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Akhenaten's successor was King Tut, his son. Nefertiti may have served as regent, but I don't remember how old Tut was when he became king. Tut and his mother restored the old gods and monotheism ended with the death of Akhenaten. Rames…

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Try not to laugh at this rendition of the Exsultet
Agreed on the live streams. Most of them aren't that good or professionally done.

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I'm sure it wasn't written in English. Waterways have changed courses, empires have fallen, and there are periods in Egyptian history that were chaotic and we really know little about them. There have been several groups that invaded Egy…

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Choral settings of the Trisagion (Thrice-Holy Hymn)
You can listen to an Orthodox version here. What I have I could get into copyright issues if I copied them for you. You might try Byzantine Seminary Press site for an English Catholic setting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lzQcSzirJg&list…

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Sequence for Pentecost
I always had a cantor sing then the entire choir sing the responses on the sequence. Somehow I never had the impression it was long. I rather liked it.

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Actually, Google doesn't always have answers and even when it does, they are not always correct. I never let my students use Google as a reference source. I didn't mind them looking items up in Google but I insisted they find a corrobora…

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women singing the propers - arguments and documents supporting the practice
Granted, all males are not misogynists. But more than enough choir directors and priests are. You don't have to look far to find examples. I know of men who refuse to work with women and that seems to me not right.

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Liam, I had forgotten about that Theodoric. For some reason, the one in the old Saturday Night Live sketches with Steve Martin stuck in my mind. LOL

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Jackson, I read something similar. I have read so much my circuits are overloaded. LOL

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Vatican I was the last gasp of the Imperial Papal States and all that was coming to an end. Many of the cardinals and bishops were of the nobility and were holding on to the last vestiges of royal power and prestige.

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I am of the opinion that if plagues, invading forces and such had been successful in destroying Vatican I before it could make any pronouncements, we would all be better off today. No, every word or event in the Bible is not fact. The ancients, in…

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women singing the propers - arguments and documents supporting the practice
Women are half of humanity, so it seems to me the misogynists need to learn how to deal with them appropriately. So...if women sing the propers do they become impropers?

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Try not to laugh at this rendition of the Exsultet
I would agree that if you can't sing it, don't. It will turn out badly.

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Some of that is very hard to prove. Christ is more widely known in our day than His. He was one of many prophets alive at the time. It doesn't help that the ancients had a different sense of what history should be and what it should convey. …

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Interesting, but I had not heard of Velikovsky or his chronology. Rohl never addressed a new chronology for the ancient Near East. He dealt with a calendar miscalculation for Ancient Egypt during one relatively short time period. He may be right,…

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Try not to laugh at this rendition of the Exsultet
I had the experience of a priest who mangled the Exsultet. I even played softly under him so he could stay on pitch. Didn't work and he blew a substantial number of the notes. But...get this...he thought he did an excellent job of singing it …

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Rohl did an interesting 3-part television series which premiered in 1995, "A Test of Time: The Bible From Myth to History." He holds a University College London degree in Egyptology and Ancient History. He is also Chairman of the Instit…

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Interesting. I had never heard of Rohr.

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Rohl has interesting points and he does indicate some connections to take seriously. As he rightly maintains, the Egyptian archaeologists are rather consumed by their own conclusions and are unwilling to consider any other positions. That doesn�…

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A couple of sources for anyone interested. On possible errors in Egyptian dating and Bible figures, "A Test of Time" (two volumes) by David M. Rohl. "The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon," by Stephanie Dalley. Fascinat…

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That must be another of those dire prophetic warnings since it doesn't make a lot of sense. LOL

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Try not to laugh at this rendition of the Exsultet
FFJ was entertainment and humor for charitable causes. She always donated ticket sales to charity. It was never an act of worship, although I have been to many churches where FFJ would have shown better musical taste. So many parishes put so litt…

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Francis, Francis, Francis. The Nile and tributaries have changed course numerous times. We don't know there was two feet of water there at that time. We are not even sure which pharaoh was on the throne or when it exactly was. One prominent…

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women singing the propers - arguments and documents supporting the practice
I remember, from my days in a national lab, an engineer complaining about having his technical writing edited before being published. He maintained he had a right to write as he pleased. The head of the publishing arm of the lab told him he also h…

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women singing the propers - arguments and documents supporting the practice
The propers need some serious editing. I remember that it took around nine years to translate them into English. By then, everyone had moved on to something else. Given the differences between the old and new rites, they didn't fit the OF at…

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Try not to laugh at this rendition of the Exsultet
Definitely different. I don't know where this is but maybe he was stuck with something he was ill prepared to sing. Who knows?

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There were two Bethlehems and scholars debate over which one was actually the birthplace of Jesus. https://www.timesofisrael.com/was-jesus-born-in-a-different-bethlehem/#:~:text=The town of Bethlehem of,moved to Nazareth up north. Also "Red S…

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Foot washing is optional and the priest can drop it, or so it was explained to me by the priest who dropped it.

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