Day: December 6, 2022

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The Mike Church Show

Tuesday New Christendom Daily-We Could Use A Homo And Heretic Slapping Bishop Like Saint Nicholas Today!

Saint Nicholas HEADLINE: Whatever Happened to Saint Nicholas? by Father Dwight Longenecker HEADLINE: St. Nicholas: Hidden Patron of America by Daniel Dougherty HEADLINE: Why I Love St. Nicholas by Charles Coulombe FROM Father Dwight Longenecker: Eleven years later publisher William B. Gilley brought out Sante Claus, The Children’s Friend. Now the gift-giving saint arrived from the North in a sleigh with flying reindeer. This image along with a cute, didactic poem […]

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Saint Nicholas Day Pile of Prep

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "How did a fourth-century, heretic-slapping bishop from Southern Turkey wind up being a fat, Coca-Cola-swigging American elf? The popular version of the narrative is that the Dutch brought St. Nicholas Day customs to the new world. However historians disagree and suggest that it was German immigrants in Pennsylvania who kept the feast of St. Nicholas. They were the “Pennsylvania Dutch”—the “Dutch” meaning “Deutsch” or “German” […]

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Monday Pile of Prep

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Innocent’s world was not flat, timeless, and univocal. Christendom was dynamic, hierarchical, temporal, and analogical. It moved, governed by a master narrative of fall and redemption, sin and grace, law and freedom, the external and the internal, the temporal and the spiritual. Its meta-narrative was that of salvation history, the movement from paradise, through the stages of the Old Testament, into the New Testament, and […]

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