Tag: Catholic Theology
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The Function of Music in Sacred Worship: The Role of Choristers
By Valentine Umoh Introduction[1] The experience of encounter with the holy, awe-provoking yet fascinatingly attractive, is known from the history of religions.[2] This experience invites engagement with a transcendent “Holy mystery” or “ground of being” who at once is utterly beyond all created personal beings and is very near (immanent) to them. In both…
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5 keys to understanding the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
BY LILIANA MONTES | ACI Prensa 14.08.2019 4.29PM Every August 15 we celebrate the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to the Heavens. Here are five keys that will help us to better understand this truth about the Catholic faith. 1. You must know what a dogma means A dogma is a truth…
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YOU TOO CAN BE A SAINT … WE ARE ALL CALLED TO HOLINESS!
The first day of November every year, the universal Church celebrates the feast day of all the Saints both known and unknown. The Book of Revelation describes these people in a figurative language thus: “After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and…
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Messiah in Isaiah 7:14
Introduction Many ink has been spilled on this single verse. The one important question that occupies studies in this single verse over the centuries has been the messianic character of the text. Is Isaiah 7:14 Messianic? William Most argues thus: Catholic scholars at one time used to defend the messianic nature of that text. Then…
Fr. Valentine Umoh 