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Humans are living souls. Soul (psyche) means the breathing existence. The body (soma) is the outward appearance and the physique of the human.
It all means the same human being. Soul more in the sense of living and ability to feel. Body more in the sense of physical existence.
The spirit, pneuma, is what moves the person, what his thoughts are and his ...
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Part of the Litany of the Holy Name of Mary:
Mary, house of God, pray for us
Mary, sanctuary of the Lord, pray for us
Mary, altar of the Divinity, pray for us
Mary, Virgin Mother, pray for us
Mary, embracing your Infant God, pray for us
The Holy Table would be the altar. Calling the altar the Holy Table is mostly an Eastern Catholic and ...
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One point I always like to stress to my Catechism class because I think it really shows a lot about who Jesus and Mary are is that she is, as the Litany of Loreto says, the
Ark of the Covenant
The Ark held God within it and physically held a few mementos of desert wanderings (According to the tradition the Book of Hebrews uses in 9:4)
which had the ...
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On the contrary, St John of Damascus himself says:
since it is man's custom to eat and to drink water and wine, He connected His divinity with these and made them His body and blood in order that we may rise to what is supernatural through what is familiar and natural. The body which is born of the holy Virgin is in truth body united with divinity, not ...
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