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    A Saint in the Making: Father Jack Flaherty Priests can help you navigate your way through life because God’s voice shines through them. Father Jack Flaherty is one of the most compassionate and driven priest I have ever met. He goes from parish to parish spreading God’s love to everyone in need and goes above and beyond in making sure that everyone feels welcomed wherever they go. Due to his large time commitment, dedication to God and his parishioners, and his exemplary exhibition of heroic qualities

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    Spotlight Reflection

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    Recently in Journalism class, we watched the movie titled Spotlight which was based on the story of the 87 priest molestation cases that occurred in Boston alone. This movie followed a team of Journalists, the Spotlight Team, who worked for the Boston Globe. This team tracked down 87 molester priests and cultivated a story to bring attention to the issue. While there were a lot of important concepts highlighted in this movie, the three main concepts of the film were on why this issue has been happening

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    The Snob

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    Grade 11 SBA REVIEW THE SNOB CONTEXT CLUES* MAIN IDEA LITERARY ELEMENTS* The Snob by Morley Callaghan 1 IT WAS at the book counter in the department store that John Harcourt, the student, caught a glimpse of his father. At first he could not be sure in the crowd that pushed along the aisle, but there was something about the color of the back of the elderly man’s neck, something about the faded felt hat, that he knew very well. Harcourt was standing with the girl he loved, buying a book

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    in the orthodox house church, were being excluded from holding the office of a bishop or presbyter, although, in some house churches, they were allowed to be deacons. According to the anonymous, evidence of women deacons can be dated into the 500s; however, the women deacons were concentrated in Syriac. During the same time, the house churches were also beginning to recognize the office of the mono-presbyter. However, women who were Montanist were viewed differently. As demonstrated by the leaders

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    Jak Kramer GH 301 Apocalypse Source Explication For my primary source, I decided to choose a letter found in Narrative of the Anabaptist Madness: The Overthrow of Munster, the Famous, Metropolis of Westphalia by Hermann von Kerssenbrock. Although this was a letter in a book written by Herman von Kerssenbrock, it was actually written by Bernard Rothman; a radical preacher that strained the boundaries of what religious reformed looked like at that time. Rothman was born in Swabisch Hall around 1495

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    Sabellianism was the nontrinitarian principle that God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit were three separate aspects of God. Later declared heretical, Sabellianism and similar theologies established out of the earlier teaching known as Modalistic Monarchianism, with which it was often recognized with. Sabellianism contrasted from classical trinitarianism by that it insisted that the three persons of the Holy Trinity did not form enduring differences, but alternatively performed as means

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    A presbyter was one who would have taught Christian doctrine, had the authority to baptize, consecrate the communion, and perform whatever other religious rites were necessary, which is why the title is equivalent to that of priest or elder. Although it is hypothesized

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    The Libyan born Presbyter and theologian, Arius (d. 336), believed that Jesus was created by god and therefore not eternal. He taught many things in his church in Alexandria and he attempted to address complexities such as the divinity of Christ in relation to God according to monotheism. Perhaps God had a reason for the work of Arius in the Empire. Until now the church hadn’t resolved an issue of this magnitude and Arius brought it to the main stage. Perhaps Arius was meant to argue for the sake

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    among the leaders and population due to the rising questioning of the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ. At the beginning of the fourth century, the First Council of Nicaea was convened to come against the heretical teachings of Arius. Arius, a presbyter from Alexandria, who along with his followers believed that “before [the Son] was begotten or created or defined or established, he was not for he was not unbegotten and that the Son had a beginning but God has no beginning.” (Bingham, D. Jeffrey

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    Hans Memling’s altarpiece depicts an array of significant and rather specific features of Revelation. Directly in the center of the piece we see the four horsemen. Moving from the left (or the back), to the right (or the front), is the white horse whose rider carries an archer’s bow and wears a crown, the red horse whose rider is given a sword, the black horse whose rider holds a yoked scale, and a green horse whose rider’s name is death and hell follows behind him. Less obvious is the depiction

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