Any rels on Minecraft?

wtf

Scouts in Rome walk around handing out palms and olive branches on the streets

Get a coloured member of the parish to request it. Then claim ethnic discrimination

Good news everyone, I just checked, Saint Peter's is still standing

I took a course on post-Shoah theology. It was quite interesting, It shaped my thesis on Saint Paul

Basically I wanted to title it "Saint Paul was not a Jew", but I probably would have got in trouble for that. Thing is, he wasn't, he was a Benjaminite

Armenian Genocide? The Greeks were also kicked out of Anatolia.

Anatolia is nice. I've been there, Ephesus is amazing and the House of Mary.

Well, that made me feel better.

My life is ok

I've been feeling pretty bad for the last few days.

Contract at work wasn't renewed. So in three months I'm unemployed. I had another job offer,but it's one third of what I was earning. I'm living in Rome Italy where my wife is from. Work is scarce here so I'll probably have to move us back to Australia.

Thanks, harder on my wife. I was hoping for another year.

It's just going to be a big change. God will provide.

We wanted to get a bigger place and try for kids.

Getting her a visa for Australia can take two years

It's ridiculous. I had the ambassador at my wedding.

B grade theologian

Yeah, my Hebrew is shithouse and it's stopping me getting my doctorate in Scripture

So I have two theology degrees, and if I can't get the next one my job.options are limited.

Don't join the seminary y'all.

Watching "Bridesmaids" with my wife. She's feeling so shit we couldn't go to the Easter Vigil

@Mozalbete ⳩ have to be careful with our money.

I'm taking her out for our wedding anniversary in 8 days

I've had an offer to teach English to priests in Rome.

I'll take anything, but it's not something I can support a family on.

I shall! I'll deliver pizzas if I have to do so.

She works as a graphic designer, in Italy the pay is really low, for everyone.

I also don't really speak fluent italian. Losing the contract just sent our plans into a tailspin

God will provide. It's just annoying watching all the heathens getting ahead while those with faith get shafted.

We can rejoice though. Christ conquers death.

The Turks had been destroyed?

The Muslims and the Jews had disappeared from the Holy Land?

@CRYSS ⳩ WTF

Your dream is whack

There were only.males on your dream. Must be gay

Please report to your nearest conversion centre to be degayed

Doesn't matter, the grand poobah has decided.

I wish, ok, I'm stuck at my in-laws and nowhere is clear to lie down. It's almost 10pm, I'm tired. Getting old sucks.

Lviv in Ukraine has so many Greek Catholic churches, lots of young priests and beautiful liturgies. The moment a church opens in the morning the faithful appear and make their pious devotions.

Is fasting from food for a night and having only a beer fasting?

I reckon it's fasting.

I'm walking around Lviv train station reading all the Cyrillic signs like a moron.

Didn't see that.

:( I'm in Berlin. Anyone recommend a decent place for Lunch?

I'll get some bratwurst and currywurst. I need to pick up some food before Zurich. I'm not buying anything there

I was in Ukraine, now heading back to Rome via Berlin and Zurich. I took night buses. I feel terrible and have barely any motivation. I want to lie in the park to sleep but Germans have dogs ... They piss and shit everywhere, so I can't even have that!

1 and a half hours until the Pell case

You can watch it live https://www.streaming.scvwebcast1.com/judgment-in-the-matter-of-george-pell-v-r-21-august-19/

@Dasick don't be retarded. The Church has never had a problem with "race-mixing" it's been going on since the beginning.

It's only the weird Protestants who had a thing against it.

It doesn't promote breathing either.

Weren't hot enough to stop the savages from cheating.

Fascinating that Weinberg was so scathing of the complainant's evidence. "Entirely implausible and quite unconvincing" regarding the second incident.

@MawLr 2-1 against

@Kwik_skoper AUS Navy?

I spent some time with the US Navy guys out of Naples. I was assigned as a ... Sort of chaplain I guess.

The commisary back in the day, when the Aussie dollar was worth more than the US.

Weird having whole towns of US personnel and families just in the middle of nowhere. I remember an Admiral or something driving me in and I look to the school sports field and there was a Marching Band. A damn marching band in the middle of Italy. It was like a California subdivision had been magicked into a field.

@Kwik_skoper they have had a major naval base since WWII, hospital and golf course on the support site.

@Kwik_skoper lots of families, auS Navy Officer corp is ~60% Catholic or something. Huge strong presence, lots of kids. Number of my friends are priest chaplains.

I'm off to Trent tomorrow for four nights. It's just going to rain :(

Trent. The last decent Council.

The Mass we love for the people we hate

Ireland is damned

In Greek the word for Jew or Judean is identical

It is part of my area of research. The distinction is a later one

There were those outside of Judea who would call themselves Judean to ally themselves.

It of course started out meaning those from the tribe of Judah but it gradually expanded.

St Paul tends to avoid the word when referring to himself.

Tribal distinctions seem to have almost disappeared by the time of Christ. Saint Paul calls himself a Benjaminite. Only four tribes appeared to be active in the NT, Levi, Judah, Benjamin and Asher.

It can mean Jew or Judean

In Greek there is no independent word for Jew or Judean.

Jew is a shortened term for Judean

There is a whole book on the issue. I forget it's name though

Only Saint Paul is really picky on the differences.

The Greeks/Romans didn't really make such distinctions.

And by the time of Christ tribal differences had disappeared so pharisaism was the dominant movement which found its strength on the synagogue system

It went from tribal to religo-political

As for the Edomite idea ... That's the first I've heard of that, and I studied Biblical Studies at the Gregorian in Rome. But I wouldn't discount it, I would have to do more research

The problem is making distinctions becomes complex and the words weren't settled. Even theological words in English have only been settled in the last 40 years. When theology was still taught in Latin, the English words varied quite a lot

No real way without getting really technical and specific.

It's like calling someone an "American" do you mean Canadian, USA or Mexico.

That's a better word North American

My whole area was on the idea and word of Judean ... I ended up getting so lost and confused I never finished my thesis

@Natio that's the problem there isn't much and what we have in Greek was written by non Jews, so they didn't care so much

Unfortunately Flavius Josephus in Greek has disappeared in Latin he doesn't care for distinctions about tribes and whatnot. He uses Jews/Judeans as a catch all

Only Saint Paul seems to care about the distinctions somewhat and in that he never really calls himself a Jew. St Luke does though. It's funny reading how Saint Like describes Saint Paul and how St Paul describes himself

@Natio yeah ... It's a lot more complex than that. Non Judean Jews from outside of Judea would call themselves Judeans as a sign that they were allowed with the Kingdom of Judah/the Jews

Also the whole area was in a state of flux

It finally settles by the time of the death of Christ and the triumph of the Pharisee movement.

But post Christ Judaism is clearly influenced by Christ

But Judaism was never static

Well "Jew" in Italian is "Ebraico"

Well they had to react to this man who was claimed to be the Messiah