Beverley Minster, in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, is a Parish Church in the Church of England. It is one of the largest Parish Churches in the U.K, larger than one-third of all English Cathedrals and regarded as a Gothic masterpiece by many.
The Minster owes its origin, and much of its subsequent importance, to Saint John of Beverley, who founded a Monastery, locally, around 700 A.D., and whose bones still lie beneath a plaque in the Nave. The Institution grew after his death and underwent several re-buildings. After a serious fire in 1188, the subsequent reconstruction was over-ambitious; the newly-heightened Central Tower collapsed circa 1213, bringing down much of the surrounding Church. Work on the present structure began around 1220.
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"The purpose of this little book is to endeavour to give some reasons for preferring the ancient music of the Church, in chanting the Psalms and Canticles at Divine Service, to the later music which may be said to date from the 18th century, and is known as the Anglican Chant. The writers of this paper will have attained their end if one or more of its more thoughtful and unprejudiced readers is led to conclude that, after all, in this as well as in other instances, 'the old is better.' "
Further
Action: Opportunity under Canon Law to challenge Wells Cathedral showing
blasphemous film
Thank you to those who have expressed their dismay at the decision by the
Dean of Wells Cathedral to permit the screening of the Martin Scorsese film,
‘The Last Temptation of Christ’, this coming Saturday.
If you are an
Anglican member of the diocese of Bath and Wells please consider challenging
the decision by pointing out that Canon Law prohibits the House of God being
used to show profane material.
If, however, you are a concerned Christian
outside the Anglican church, please also make your views
known.
The Cathedral plans to show the film on Saturday (7.30pm,
25 January) as part of the Bath Film Festival, so action is required
quickly.
Please contact the Bishop’s office, the Chancellor of
the Diocese and Lambeth Palace (see contact details below) to say that the
decision to show the film is challengeable under Canon Law and quote the
following articles of the law:
Canon F15 (Of
Churches not to be profaned) 1. The churchwardens and their
assistants shall not suffer the church or chapel to be profaned by any meeting
therein for temporal objects inconsistent with the sanctity of the
place...
Canon F 16 (Of plays, concerts, and
exhibitions of films and pictures in churches) 1. When any
church or chapel is to be used for a play, concert, or exhibition of films or
pictures, the minister shall take care that the words, music and pictures are
such as befit the House of God, are consonant with sound doctrine, and make for
the edifying of the people.
In addition you can also indicate to the
Bishop’s Office that a complaint may be made against the Dean of Wells
Cathedral, the Very Revd John Clarke, under the Clergy Discipline
Measure, for "conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders" because of
actions permitting profane material such as this film to be
shown.
Contact details:
The Bishop's Office: Please note that although the See is
vacant at present the diocesan website suggests making contact by either:
writing to the Bishops' Office, The Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset BA5
2PD, phoning 01749 672341 or emailing the Bishop of Taunton: bishop.taunton@bathwells.anglican.org
Lambeth Palace: Revd Dr Malcolm Brown, Director of Mission
and Public Affairs at malcolm.brown@c-of-e.org.uk
A number of supporters have contacted us to say the response from the
Cathedral to their complaints about the film, has been wholly unsatisfactory.
Read the statement from the Dean’s office here:
“The Dean of Wells
thanks you for your message of concern. Please find below a statement from the
Cathedral.
The cathedral considers bookings from a range of
organisations for the use of its space and late last year the Chapter agreed to
let the Bath Film Festival use the cathedral to screen the ‘Last Temptation of
Christ’ on Saturday 25th January 2014. The screening is being
arranged as a companion event to the Bath Film Festival’s recent showing of the
silent film THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC in another of the West Country’s most
magnificent places of worship: Bath Abbey.
The film is an
adaptation of the novel by the well-known Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis. In
the past the film has caused some controversy. However, it raised important
theological questions about the nature of temptation and vocation, and in
particular the temptations that Jesus faced. The climax of the film is the
realisation by Jesus that the desire to escape the cross and have a 'normal'
married life is a temptation from Satan.
Much has changed in
public perceptions of faith over the last 25 years. In this more sceptical age
the church should not hide from controversy and part of the task of the
cathedral is to promote an intelligent faith that is capable of attracting men
and women to follow in the way of Jesus in the twenty first century.
With this in mind we are organising a discussion before the
screening which will look at the theology behind the book and film and which
will also consider what is not said by the film. On the evening, in my welcome
and introduction, I will also suggest that the film offers, inevitably, a
partial view of who Jesus was. It is not designed to be a biography. My hope
therefore is that an audience who do not normally think about Jesus will spend
time thinking about his significance for us today.
Equally, on
the day after the screening I will be giving a talk on ‘Jesus’ as part of a
series in the cathedral called ‘What can we believe today?’. This will provide
another chance to invite people to deepen their questioning about faith, both
for those who wish to think about faith and theology afresh, and for those who
are in the process of exploring their approach to God. This particular session
will run in the Education Room of Wells Cathedral on Sunday 26th
January from 4.30pm.”
From: Mandy Staple - Secretary to the Dean
& Chapter”
Yet today in Washington D.C., hundreds of thousands of joy-filled marchers will be smiling, singing, and celebrating the gift of life. The contrast is startling.
Emily Stimpson addressed this reality on the CV Blog this week:
"If you want to understand the March for Life, if you want to understand the pro-life movement in general, it starts with hope. That’s the key. That’s the real difference between those who oppose abortion and those who support it. The first is an act of hope. The second is an act of despair.
It’s simple: When a mother chooses life, she chooses to hope. She hopes for her unborn child. She hopes for his or her future. She hopes for her own future. She hopes in the love of her friends. She hopes in the grace of God. And she hopes in herself. She hopes that no matter how young or ill equipped or scared she might be, she can still bring someone beautiful into the world..."
Apart from our winning the pro-life battle in politics, science and the law, the real secret to victory remains our building a culture of hope.
No, not the hope offered as a political slogan in 2008.
Real hope.
The kind of hope offered every day in crisis pregnancy centers across America. The hope of courageous political leaders who defend women and children, and the voters who prioritize life, faith, and family.
The hope implicit in those men and women who choose life, welcome children, and embrace the responsibilities and adventure of raising families and caring for the elderly.
And of course, this hope is preserved every day by thousands of prayer warriors who pray in front of abortion clinics, and in front of the Blessed Sacrament in chapels hidden on streets and neighborhoods across America.
In the Soviet era, religion was often under oppression, and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, whose last Choirmaster had been Chesnokov, was destroyed. This disturbed him so deeply that he stopped writing music altogether. He died on 14 March 1944.
The Cathedral was rebuilt and Consecration took place on Transfiguration Day, 19 August 2000.
Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Павел Григорьевич Чесноков) (1877 – 1944), was a Russian Empire and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred Choral Works, over four hundred of which are Sacred. Today, he is most known for his piece, Salvation is Created, as well as works such as Do Not Reject Me in Old Age
(solo for basso profondo).
"We Praise Thee".
Composer: Pavel Grigoryevich Chesnokov (1877-1944)
Text from The Saint Andrew's Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated. Saint Peter's Chair at Rome. Feast Day 18 January. Greater-Double. White Vestments.
The manifestation of the Divinity of Jesus, which characterises the Season after Epiphany, demands of us the recognition of His Kingship over our Souls.
Christ is the Head of the Church. But as He is to re-ascend some day to Heaven, He communicates His Divine Power to man, for, after the Incarnation, it is to human intermediaries that God wills normally to establish His dealings with us.
The man whom Jesus constitutes "Prince" of Souls (Introit), and "on whom He builds His Church" (Gospel), is Saint Peter. As Vicar of Christ, he will sit in the Chair once occupied by Jesus and will hold in his hands the keys as symbols of supreme authority (Collect, Gospel).
We read in the Epistle, the beginning of the Fist Letter of Saint Peter. All the Letters of the Apostle bear the mark of his primacy. Rome is to be the capital of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. It is to Rome that Peter will come, it is on Rome's Blessed soil that he will shed his blood, he will be Bishop of Rome.
Wherefore, we must see in this Feast, a Liturgical testimony to the primacy of honour and jurisdiction attached to the Chair of Rome. This material Chair is still preserved in the Apse of the Basilica of Saint Peter.
Saint Paul, during his sojourn at Corinth, in the year 58 A.D., wrote an Epistle to the Romans. Towards the year 62 A.D., he was led to Rome a captive and remained there two years. Imprisoned again in the year 67 A.D., he was put to death, like Saint Peter, in the henceforth Eternal City. Wherefore, the Liturgy associates, in a Second Collect, the glorious name of the Apostle with that of the first Bishop of Rome.
Let us, today, Pray for the Pope, successor of Saint Peter, that he may freely exercise the Divine Powers communicated to him by Jesus, Son of God.
Mass: Státuit ei Dóminus.
Commemoration: Saint Prisca.
English: Interior of the Basilica of Saint Peter's, Vatican.
Français: Vatican, Basilique St Pierre, Intérieur.
The name derives from the Latin Cathedra, meaning chair or throne, which is used to denote the Chair or Seat of a Bishop. The Cathedra, in Saint Peter's Basilica, was once used by the Popes. Inside the Chair, is a wooden throne, which, according to tradition, was used by Saint Peter. It was, however, actually a gift from Charles the Bald to Pope John VIII in 875 A.D.
After Saint Paul, The First Hermit, Father of the Anchorites, or Hermits, the Christmas Cycle honours Saint Anthony, Father of the Cenobites, who live in common.
When he was eighteen, he retired into the Egyptian desert and led the life of a Hermit. The devil, in order to frighten him and drive him from the solitude, would appear to him in the most hideous shapes; "but the Lord made him formidable to his foes: One word from his mouth reduced these prodigies to nothingness" (Epistle).
His holiness soon attracted Souls desirous to see the Divine Kingship of Christ more perfectly confirmed in themselves. As a new lawgiver, he gave them "the Doctrine and rule of life that he had received from God in Prayer" (Epistle).
English: St. Anthony's Egyptian Coptic Monastery at Coma, Egypt.
Saint Anthony, the first of Abbots, instituted Monastic life in common, by which are formed noble Souls always ready, like their Father in God, to receive the Lord when He shall come to take them from this world (Gospel). Wherefore, today's Mass is that of the Common of Abbots.
He also strenuously fought against Arianism and with Saint Athanasius, who honoured him with his friendship, he successfully defended the Dogma of the Divinity of Christ. He died in 356 A.D., at the age of one hundred and five years.
Let us show forth by the perfection of our lives that we share in the Divinity of Jesus.
Mass: Os justi, of the Abbots.
Deutsch: Antonius Kloster, Ägypten.
English: Monastery of Saint Anthony, Egypt.
Français: Le monastère Saint-Antoine, en Égypte.
Nederlands: Het klooster van Sint-Antonius, in Egypte.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia, unless otherwise stated. The Monastery of Saint Anthony is a Coptic Orthodox Monastery, standing in an oasis in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, in the Southern part of the Suez Governorate. Hidden deep in the Red Sea mountains, it is located 334 km (208 miles) South-East of Cairo.
It is one of the oldest Monasteries in the world, together with Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, which also lays claim to that title. The Monastery of Saint Anthony was established by the followers of Saint Anthony, who is considered to be the first Monk.
The Monastery of Saint Anthony is one of the most prominent Monasteries in Egypt, and has strongly influenced the formation of several Coptic institutions, and has promoted Monasticism in general. Several Patriarchs have come from this Monastery, and several hundred Pilgrims visit it each day.
Coptic leaders, the Patriarch, the Metropolitans, and the Bishops, have always been recruited from among the desert Monks. In the 1960s, Anba Shenudah initiated the Sunday School movement, which encouraged educated young men to forsake worldly pleasures and instead join their Desert Fathers.
Since the movement began, the total number of Monks has more than tripled within the first 25 years, and many of these young ascetics have also been promoted to the Episcopacy. At the Monastery of Saint Anthony, the number of Monks increased from twenty-four, in 1960, to sixty-nine, in 1986. By 2010, about one hundred and twenty Monks and Priests live in the Community.
This trend has reversed since the revival of Monasticism in Egypt in the 1960s. Today, Monks are well-educated young men with extensive academic and professional backgrounds in the scientific fields such as engineering, medicine, pharmacy, and architecture.
Pope Saint Marcellus I (died 309 A.D.) was the Pope from May or June 308 A.D. to his death in 309 A.D. He succeeded Pope Marcellinus after a considerable interval. Under Emperor Maxentius, he was banished from Rome in 309 A.D., on account of the tumult caused by the severity of the penances he had imposed on Christians who had lapsed under the recent persecution. He died the same year, being succeeded by Pope Eusebius. His Relics are under the Altar of San Marcello al Corso in Rome. His Feast Day is 16 January.
For some time after the death of Pope Marcellinus in 304 A.D., the Diocletian Persecution continued with unabated severity. After the abdication of Diocletian in 305 A.D., and the accession in Rome of Emperor Maxentius to the throne of the Caesars in October of the following year, the Christians of the Capital again enjoyed comparative peace.
Nevertheless, nearly two years passed before a new Bishop of Rome was elected. Then in 308 A.D., according to the Catalogus Liberianus, Pope Marcellus first entered into his Office: "Fuit temporibus Maxenti a cons. X et Maximiano usque post consulatum X et septimum". This abbreviated notice is to be read: "A cons. Maximiano Herculio X et Maximiano Galerio VII [308] usque post cons. Maxim. Herc. X et Maxim. Galer. VII [309]".
At Rome, Marcellus found the Church in the greatest confusion. The meeting-places and some of the burial-places of the Faithful had been confiscated, and the ordinary life and activity of the Church was interrupted. Added to this, were the dissensions within the Church itself, caused by the large number of weaker members, who had fallen away during the long period of active Persecution and, later, under the leadership of an Apostate, violently demanded that they should be re-admitted to Communion without doing Penance.
English: The Church of San Marcello al Corso, Rome, Italy,
where the Relics of Pope Saint Marcellus I lay under the High Altar.
According to the Liber Pontificalis, Marcellus divided the territorial administration of the Church into twenty-five Districts (Tituli), appointing over each a Presbyter, who saw to the preparation of the Catechumens for Baptism and directed the performance of public penances. The Presbyter was also made responsible for the burial of the dead and for the celebrations commemorating the deaths of the Martyrs.
The Pope also had a new burial-place, the Cœmeterium Novellœ on the Via Salaria (opposite the Catacomb of Saint Priscilla), laid out. The Liber Pontificalis (ed. Duchesne, I, 164) says: "Hic fecit cymiterium Novellae via Salaria et XXV titulos in urbe Roma constituit quasi diœcesis propter baptismum et pœnitentiam multorum qui convertebantur ex paganis et propter sepulturas martyrum".
At the beginning of the 7th-Century, there were probably twenty-five Titular Churches in Rome; even granting that, perhaps, the compiler of the Liber Pontificalis referred this number to the time of Marcellus, there is still a clear historical tradition, in support of his declaration, that the Ecclesiastical administration in Rome was re-organised by this Pope after the great Persecution.
The work of the Pope was, however, quickly interrupted by the controversies to which the question of the re-admittance of the lapsi into the Church gave rise. As to this, we gather some light from the poetic tribute composed by Pope Damasus I, in memory of his predecessor and placed over his grave (De Rossi, "Inscr. christ. urbis Romæ", II, 62, 103, 138; cf. Idem, "Roma sotterranea", II, 204–5).
Pope Damasus relates that Pope Marcellus was looked upon as a wicked enemy by all the lapsed, because he insisted that they should perform the prescribed Penance for their guilt. As a result, serious conflicts arose, some of which ended in bloodshed, and every bond of peace was broken. At the head of this band of dissenters was an Apostate who had denied the Faith even before the outbreak of persecution.
The tyrannical Emperor Maxentius had the Pope seized and sent into exile. This took place at the end of 308 A.D., or the beginning of 309 A.D., according to the passages cited above from the Catalogus Liberianus, which gives the length of the Pontificate as no more than one year, six (or seven) months, and twenty days. Marcellus died shortly after leaving Rome, and was venerated as a Saint.
His Feast Day was 16 January, according to the Depositio episcoporum of the Chronography of 354 A.D., and every other Roman authority. Nevertheless, it is not known whether this is the date of his death or that of the burial of his remains, after these had been brought back from the unknown quarter to which he had been exiled. He was buried in the Catacomb of Saint Priscilla, where his grave is mentioned by the itineraries to the graves of the Roman Martyrs as existing in the Basilica of Saint Silvester (De Rossi, Roma sotterranea, I, 176).
A 5th-Century "Passio Marcelli", which is included in the legendary account of the Martyrdom of Saint Cyriacus (cf. Acta Sanct., Jan., II, 369) and is followed by the Liber Pontificalis, gives a different account of the end of Marcellus. According to this version, the Pope was required by Maxentius, who was enraged at his reorganisation of the Church, to lay aside his Episcopal dignity and make an offering to the gods. On his refusal, he was condemned to work as a slave at a station on the public highway (catabulum). At the end of nine months, he was set free by the Clergy; but a matron named Lucina, having had her house on the Via Lata consecrated by him as "titulus Marcelli", he was again condemned to the work of attending to the horses brought into the station, in which menial occupation he died.
All this is probably legendary, the reference to the restoration of Ecclesiastical activity by Marcellus alone having an historical basis. The tradition related in the verses of Damasus seems much more worthy of belief. The Feast of Saint Marcellus, whose name is to this day borne by the Church at Rome mentioned in the above legend, is still celebrated on 16 January. There still remains to be mentioned Mommsen's peculiar view that Marcellus was not really a Bishop, but a simple Roman Presbyter, to whom was committed the Ecclesiastical administration during the latter part of the period of vacancy of the Papal Chair. According to this view, 16 January was really the date of Marcellus' death, the next occupant of the Chair being Eusebius (Neues Archiv, 1896, XXI, 350–3). This hypothesis has, however, found no support.
The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Saint Marcellus. Pope and Martyr.
Feast Day 16 January.
Semi-Double.
Red Vestments.
As Supreme Head of the Church (Introit, Gradual) at the time of the last Persecutions of the Roman Emperors, Saint Marcellus bore witness to the Divinity of Christ "by losing his life for His sake" (Gospel).
The Holy Widow, Lucina, having offered him her house, he transformed it into a Church, now called Saint Marcellus's. Emperor Maxentius transferred there certain deer from the public stables and condemned the Holy Pope to keep them. His sufferings, tempered by Divine Consolation, made him feel all the more for the troubles of his flock (Epistle). Exhausted by ill-treatment, conquered by pain, he died in 309 A.D.
His heroic resistance, against which the Caesar's violence was broken, proves that Jesus is God, for "it is His powerful hand that succours His servant, and His arm which strengthens him so that the enemy shall not get the better of him" (Gradual).
The Divine Reign of the Saviour will indeed soon be acknowledged and with the Emperor Constantine, the Church of Rome, "Queen of Churches", as Saint Marcellus called her, will be Queen of the World, not only in the spiritual order, but also in the temporal.
Let us imitate the courage of the Holy Pontiff, Marcellus, in defending the Divine Rights of Christ in order that they may be manifested again by the triumph of the Church.
Saint Paul, the father of Hermits, had Saint Jerome for his historian. Having become an orphan at the age of fifteen, he gave up his possessions and retired into a desert, where a flourishing palm-tree, a symbol of his virtues (Introit) provided him with food and clothing.
He meditated in solitude on the science of sciences, which is to know Jesus Christ (Epistle) and the Father, Whom Christ reveals to the humble (Gospel). He lived thus to the age of one hundred and twelve, enjoying in the heroic exercise of Prayer and Penance the sweetness of the Lord's yoke (ibid.).
The great Saint Anthony of the Desert visited him a little before his death and Saint Paul asked him, as a last favour, to allow him to sleep his last sleep in the cloak of Saint Athanasius, the invincible Defender of the Divinity of Christ.
He thereby affirmed that he died in the communion of this Saint and that his own long life of Penance had encouraged those who fought against the Arian Heresy. He died towards 342 A.D.
During this Season after Epiphany, consecrated to the Manifestation of the Divinity of Jesus, let us, with Saint Paul, The First Hermit, endeavour to convince ourselves that a Christian life consists in recognising Christ as the Son of God and in sanctifying ourselves by making His Divine Holiness our own (Epistle).
Introit: Justus ut palma.
Collect: Deus qui nos.
Commemoration: of Saint Maurus (Abbot): Collect: Intercéssio.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.
Saint Paul The First Hermit (Anba Boula) (Ava Pavly) , commonly known as Saint Paul the First Hermit or Saint Paul the Anchorite or Saint Paul of Thebes (died circa 341 A.D.), is regarded as the first ChristianHermit. He is not to be confused with Paul the Simple, who was a disciple of Anthony the Great.
The Life of Saint Paul the First Hermit was composed in Latin by Saint Jerome, circa 375 A.D. The legend, according to Jerome's Vitae Patrum (Vita Pauli primi eremitae), is that, as a young man, Paul fled to the Thebandesert during the persecution of Decius and Valerianus, around 250 A.D.
At that time, Paul and his married sister, both of whom lived in the Thebaid [Editor: Region of ancient Egypt], lost their parents. In order to obtain Paul's inheritance, his brother-in-law sought to betray him to the persecutors.
He lived in the mountains of this desert, in a cave near a clear spring and a palm tree, the leaves of which provided him with raiment, and the fruit of which provided him with his only source of food, until he was 43 years old, when a raven started bringing him half a loaf of bread daily. He would remain in that cave for the rest of his life, almost a hundred years.
Paul of Thebes is known to posterity because Anthony, around the year 342 A.D., was told in a dream about the older hermit's existence, and went to find him.
Familiar stories, from the "Life", include: The meeting of Saint Paul and Saint Anthony; the raven which brought them bread; Saint Anthony being sent to fetch the cloak, given him by "Athanasius the Bishop", to bury Saint Paul in; Saint Paul's death, before he returned; and the grave dug by lions.
Jerome further related the meeting of Anthony the Great and Paul, when the latter was aged one hundred and thirteen. They conversed with each other for one day and one night. The Synaxarium shows each Saint inviting the other to Bless and break the bread, as a token of honour. Saint Paul held one side, putting the other side into the hands of Father Anthony, and soon the bread broke through the middle and each took his part. When Anthony next visited him, Paul was dead. Anthony clothed him in a tunic, which was a present from Athanasius of Alexandria, and buried him, with two lions helping to dig the grave.
Father Anthony returned to his Monastery, taking with him the robe woven with palm leaf. He honoured the robe so much that he only wore it twice a year: At Easter and at Pentecost.
Saint Paul, The First Hermit's Feast Day is celebrated on 15 January, in the West, on 5 January or 15 January, in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, and on 2 Meshir (9 February) in the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Saint Anthony described him as "the first Monk".
Saint Paul's Monastery (Deir Mar Boulos) is traditionally believed to be on the site of the cave where the Saint lived and where his remains are kept. The Monastery is located in the Eastern desert mountains of Egypt, near the Red Sea. The Cave Church of Saint Paul marks the spot where Saint Anthony, "the Father of Monasticism," and Saint Paul, "the First Hermit," are believed to have met.
He is also the Patron Saint of the Diocese of San Pablo (Philippines) and is the Titular of the Cathedral of the said Diocese in San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines.
The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit was founded in Hungary, in his honour, in the 13th-Century. He is usually represented with a palm tree, two lions and a raven.
The Order of Saint Paul, the First Hermit (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Sancti Pauli Primi Eremitae, Croatian: Red svetog Pavla prvog pustinjaka – pavlini, Czech: Řád paulínů, German: Pauliner, Hungarian: Szent Pál első remete szerzeteseinek rendje, Polish: Paulini – Zakon Świętego Pawła Pierwszego Pustelnika, Slovak: Rád Svätého Pavla Prvého Pustovníka) is a Monastic Order of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in Hungary during the 13th-Century.
The title is derived from the Hermit, Saint Paul of Thebes (died circa 345 A.D.), Canonised in 491 A.D., by Pope Gelasius I. After his death, a Monastery, taking him as its model, was founded on Mount Sinai and still exists today.
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‘The Last Temptation of Christ’, this coming Saturday.
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