assumption catholic church

I heard the Armenian and Eastern Orthodox Churches have a 5 day fast period preceding the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. In the Catholic it was 14. Is this true or is it not. How many days are considered fasting days preceding the Feast in the Armenian Apostolic Church and how much in the Roman Catholic Church?

I have never heard of a fasting and/or abstinence period in the Catholic Church other than Fridays and Lent.

With love in Christ.

2008-07-31 13:19:33 by gorgon

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Serious answers only!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are the 2 I have found online...I live in the Detroit area and am visiting Chicago in a couple weeks.

Assumption Church
Holy Name Catholic Cathedral

Diana -

There are three Catholic Churches in the downtown area of Chicago. The one you visit depends on you. All are beautiful churches.

1. ST PETER'S CHURCH
110 W MADISON ST (right in the heart of the Loop)
CHICAGO, IL 60602
(312) 372-5111
http://www.stpetersloop.org/

2. HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
735 N STATE ST (3 blocks west of Water Tower Place)
CHICAGO, IL 60610
(312) 787-8040
http://www.holynamecathedral.org/menu.ht m

3. ASSUMPTION CHURCH
323 W ILLINOIS ST
CHICAGO, IL 60610
(312) 644-0036
http://assumption-chgo.org/
Oldest Italian Catholic Church in Chicago

Enjoy your time in Chicago!

2008-05-02 10:54:32 by ♥

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I was invited to join a catholic forum from an answer I gave on here. So I joined and the first thing I was told was to go on meet and greet forum.
I did that saying that I did not know why I had been invited as I was of the opinion that the Roman Catholic church was corrupt, morally, financially and spiritually But I noted that people kept going to the churches where they took part in a ceremony that involved eating what they really believed was human flesh and drank what they really believed was human blood and if they did not really believe that then they were not true catholics. Naturally I expected some flack and to be asked what I meant when I said the the Roman Catholic church was corrupt but all that happened was that I was banned for anti catholic rant.. My conclusion is that the Roman Catholic church is unable to deal with real criticism
Dear rebel I do understand libel I am a law graduate but did not say that the catholic church was corrupt I said in my opinion it was and I am entitled to my opinion. If you want to know why I am of that opinion there are a number of reasons but there is a book called In Gods Name which is worth a read
Hi anonymous sorry but in the UK we don't celebrate thanksgiving but we do eat turkey at christmas (as you call it) which is the feats of Saturnalia and Mithrase's birthday
Lilth Raven where did you get that bit about a heated iron mask. I know the inquistition tortured people at one time (and who knows maybe they still do they are after all still around) but I never heard it said that they did that..
Oh and in case anyone needs to know the inquistion is now called The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the current pope used to be head of it.
I have read and reread what I said and I will repeat I was voicing and opinion note making a statement. I cannot see that I was in any way rude. How would you expect me to say what I had to say "Please sirs I am sorry to says this but" I could not take part in such a forum without making my opinions and position clear. This I did and I was banned. Okay that was the right of the admistrators if they were unable to deal with my opinions

You're spot on!!

Now I'm going to express a deeply unpopular view here in as much as you are right., thumbs at the ready to "judge not lest ye be judged"

5 years of catholic schooling made me realise that 99% of the ones I met were unable to handle challenges of any sort.

And what's more the ones I meet now are still picking at finger buffet that is catholicism, ie. well contraception doesn't apply to me or I can have sex before marriage or get divorced.. I know nobody is perfect but my friend who is catholic doesn't seem to feel that terminations, contraception & sex outside marriage are in conflict with her beliefs in any way whatsoever.

If & when I encounter some devout & sincere catholics I'll listen to their views, but for the time being I think I'll avoid them as much as I can...

By the way they have a reputation for supressing free speech.. be glad we're living the 21st century...



When a sinner had "blasphemed the holy name of god", or when he had perhaps told some truth about the local priest, it was customary to apply the holy trinity. The Iron mask was heated in an open fire until red hot, then put upon his head. The scourge, also red hot, was then applied to his back. After the mask had cooled, it was removed from the sinner, taking skin (and usually eyeballs) with it. The prisoner's mouth was then opened and red hot pincers were used to remove the prisoner's tongue.
It is interesting to note that the Holy Trinity was designed not to cause death, so that the maimed, blinded and mute prisoner could live out his days as a burden to his family and as a testimony to what happens when one lets his tongue wag too freely.

2008-10-25 07:22:13 by Maid Angela

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The Christian Church's doctrine was pretty much solidified 1500 years ago. It had been heavily influenced by Greek and Roman philosophers, especially in its views of science. Among those teachings lay the solid belief in a geocentric universe. Geocentric means Earth -centered; the Earth is the center of everything, and especially the center of the solar system.

However, with the Scientific Revolution that went hand-in-hand with the Renaissance of Europe, there was a resurgence of classical studies, but also a new way of looking at things. The people of the Scientific Revolution wanted to base everything in provable or observable basis. That was the start of it.

The Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) never liked the Earth-based view of the universe, yet he never publicly announced his views until he was old. This was due to the Church -- anyone who opposed Church doctrine was branded a heretic, and that would destroy your reputation, put you in prison, or even sentence you to death.

Copernicus did not invent the idea of a heliocentric - sun-centered - system, but he was the first modern person to advance it.

Johannes Kepler, was given records of the planetary positions. Hundreds of pages of data took a very long time for Kepler to sort through. However, after many years, Kepler found that the data supported three laws that astronomers still use very often today. Kepler's three Laws of Planetary Motion are:

1. Every planet follows an elliptical orbit around the sun. 2. An imaginary line from the center of the sun to the center of a planet sweeps out the same area in the same given time. One way of understanding this is by picturing it as planets move faster when they are closer to the sun, so even though they are closer so the area they sweep out would seem less, it is the same because in the same time frame the planet covers more distance.
3. The square of a planet's period (year) is proportional to the cube of its distance from the sun: p^2 is proportional to r^3

Besides their usefulness in astronomy in the past and today, Kepler's Laws added more of a mathematical framework to the heliocentric model of the universe, and so added even more fuel to the Copernican Revolution. After all, the Scientific Revolution wanted everything to be based in observation and testable and provable hypotheses.

Kepler contradicted everything the church taught and believed at the time and was subject to the same punishment as Copernicus, being branded a heretic, and that would destroy your reputation, put you in prison, or even sentence you to death.

I included information about Copernicus to demonstrate that Kepler followed his beliefs and teachings.

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2008-04-29 19:01:34 by McTerry O

During the Middle Ages.

2007-04-21 18:00:25 by acfraz4