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Again - a remarkable creation here. I think you've show here how to use this tool to its fullest to create something both beautiful and informative. 

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Again - a remarkable creation here. I think you've show here how to use this tool to its fullest to create something both beautiful and informative. 

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Outstanding work on this section! I like much more about it that I can easily say in words. Every element of the layout, design, color, text and images fits together seamlessly and communicates your insights quite well! 

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Outstanding work on this section! I like much more about it that I can easily say in words. Every element of the layout, design, color, text and images fits together seamlessly and communicates your insights quite well! 

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This celebration reveals to us the cosmic struggle between God and Evil. In this revelation, we have to choose what side we are gonna fight for.

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In the fullest way, Mary is the new Ark. She carried Jesus much like the Ark carried the word of God. And in the same way, she resembles God's presence by physically carrying God.

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The Ark of the Covenant and the New Ark 

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The Ark of the Covenant and the New Ark 

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Another story in Revelation talks about the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple. In this story the Ark becomes the focal point of the Temple and it resembles the presence of God.

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The feast of the Queenship of Mary comes from a story in the book of Revelation. In it Mary is portrayed as a pregnant women  wearing a crown of 12 stars. Once she gives birth, a dragon comes along to devour the child, which prompts a battle between the angels. This allows us to view Mary not in a sentimental way, but associated with a great cosmic struggle between Good and Evil.

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Through Jesus's last words on the cross, he established Mary as our Mother and the Mother of the Church. So if we want to do what Jesus want us to do, we need to have that relationship with Mary and Take her into our "homes."

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After Jesus bestowed Mary's role as our mother, he established through St. John (the beloved disciple) that any discipline of Jesus shares Mary as their mom.

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While on the cross, Jesus' dying word "women" gave Mary the title of Mother over all the redeems, much like how Eve (also called women) was the mother over all nature. Jesus is establishing Mary as the new Eve and as our Mothers.

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Through loving Mary it amplifies our love for God because she is a reflection for God's love. This reflection of God's love helps us to know how truly good God is, amplyfing our love for him and his wonderous works.

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Loving the people God loves increases our love for God. This is because getting to know the people God knows help us better understand God. We can do this by praying and having a relationship with Mary,.

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Reasons for Having a Relationship With Mary 

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Reasons for Having a Relationship With Mary 

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This celebration of Mary is on the Sunday after Christmas, this year it will be celebrated on December 27th.

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This celebration of Mary is on December 25th

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This celebration of Mary is on December 12th

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This celebration of Mary is on December 8th

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This celebration of Mary is on November 21st

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This celebration of Mary is on October 7th

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This celebration of Mary is on September 15th

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This celebration of Mary is on September 8th

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This celebration of Mary is on August 22

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This celebration of Mary is on August 15th.

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This celebration of Mary is on July 16th

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This celebration of Mary is on the second Sunday after Pentecost. This liturgical year it will be on June 12th

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This celebration of Mary is on May 31st

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This celebration of Mary is on March 25th

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This celebration of Mary is on February 11th

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This celebration of Mary is on January 1st

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Uniting Catholics in St. Louis in Faith, Service, and Community

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The Archdiocese of St. Louis is the spiritual home for Catholics in the St. Louis region, united in faith and service.

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In the Sacrament of the Anointing of the sick, ordinary oil in the hands of a prist is transformed into something greater with healing properties, making it a sacramental. Likewise, Kingsfoil in the hands of Aragorn is also transformed into something with healing properties. 

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Consider what Fr. Charles says about the Athelas plant, aka Kingsfoil. How does this connect to the Catholic Sacrament of Anointing?

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Although the Horns of both Rohan and Eorl do not produce a "magic" effect, they do summon courage in the face of despair. This ability to give courage to those during fearful times is the sacramental effect. 

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Think of the Horns of Rohan and the Horns of Eorl. What do these do and how do these provide a sacramental effect?

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An Old Testament "type" is a person, place, an event, or institution in the Old Testament that foreshadows the work of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. The Lembras bread can be view as pre-Christian type because LOTR takes place in a pre-christian world, where the elements of Catholicism are present, but Jesus hasn't come yet to establish the Church. The Lembras bread in this case would foreshadow the Eucharist.

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What is an Old Testament “type?” How could the Lembas Bread be viewed as a pre-Christian “type?”

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The Lembas Bread is different than how we understand the Eucharist beucase Lembas Bread is not consecrated into something holy, and it does not unite us with the Church and God himself when we eat it. Fr. Charles still considers it to be a sacramental because the Lembas bread is still a tangible thing with abilities that transcend its material form.

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Think of the Lembas Bread which the elves give to Frodo and Sam. How is this different than how Catholics understand the Eucharist? And yet, why does Fr. Charlie state that it can still be considered to be sacramental?

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Fr. Charles remarks that sacramentals are a vehicle for the spirtual word to be shown in the material word, a visible sign for something invisible. The elvish cloaks are an example of this because they have a greater power about them, which is channeled through the clothe that its made of, or in other words - its a visible thing that is a vehicle for an invisible power. Just like we believe sacramentals are. 

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What does Fr. Charles note regarding the “meshing of the planes?”  How are the elvish cloaks an example of this phenomenon? 

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Fr. Charles believes the "elvish artifacts" are good examples of how sacramentals function within Catholicism because the elvish artifacts have supernatural powers but are seemingly normal items. Catholics believe that the sacramentals also have abilities greater than themselves normally. For example holy water we believe has the powers to wash away our sin during baptism, but normal water is something we use to bathe ourselves and to satisfy out thirst. 

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Consider what you’ve learned so far about sacraments and sacramentals. Summarize how/why Fr. Charles believes the “elvish artifacts” are good examples of how sacramentals function within Catholicism.

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I really like the layout/design you've created here!

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I really like the layout/design you've created here!

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I've looked at about 100 of these so far and yours is different and better organized than most. I like how you created a clear flow from the question to the answer to the images which illustrate your answers. This is great example which I'd like to share with your classmates as we prepare for a second use of this platform to answer LOTR questions.

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The biggest and most prominent symbol in the LOTR is the symbol of the ring which stands for sin and temptation away from God and his Goodness. In the movie it tempts those who have it to keep it to themselves and even kill those who attempt to take it away from them. This refers to the way sin makes us turn away from God and those around us to do bad things. Another symbol in LOTR is Gollum, which is the symbol of something evil turning good through God's work. In the movie Gollum is represented a lot of the time as evil or Frodo and his company's enemy, but in the end its through Gollum's act that the ring is ultimately destroyed. This points to the aspect of Catholicism that we believe God can turn the instruments of sin or evil into something good for his plan for salvation. The Ranger, Gandalf, and Frodo are also all symbols that represent Priest, Prophet, and King. In the movie, each character represents one of these things, and it shows how they live each one through by their actions and "deaths" throughout the story. This obviously alludes to the aspect that everyone is called to live Priest, Prophet, and King in their lives through Baptism.

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Fr. Charles concludes by noting that there isn’t religion nor are there Sacraments in LOTR and yet there is a strong sacramental view of the world. Give three examples from the story of LOTR (as we’ve learned it through the videos we’ve watched) of people, objects, or actions which are symbols which point to aspects of Catholicism.

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Catholics know that everyone sins, and that sin leads us father away from God and his light. So in this way, sin deprives us from God and his goodness, or "it takes away the necessity" that God is. This does not mean that sin depraves us. Depraving makes people morally wicked or corrupt, and sin does not do this unless we allow it too. So as Catholics, we believe that sinning deprives us from God, but does not corrupt us from God's goodness unless we allow it to and reject God's calling.

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It is said that unlike some Protestant Christian ways of seeing the world, Catholics view the world as “deprived but not depraved.”

Draw upon what you have learned about sin to explain both parts of this statement (you’ll likely need to also define these two words in your answer.

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I think this means that Tolkien used symbols and characters to subtlety hint God and his grace. That he showed light on these matters without really explicitly saying them, or saying them "Invisibly." This observation captures the essence of the Catholic Imagination because people can subtlety reference God and his grace through anything they do or create, just like Tolkien did.

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Although God and grace are not explicitly shown in LOTR, it is said that these are present in the story like “light from an invisible lamp.”  What do you think this means? How does this short observation capture the essence of how the Catholic Imagination views the world?

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Fr. Charles quotes an early Church Father - “God became (hu)man, so that (hu)man(s) may be God.” What do you think this means?

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I think when Fr. Charles says this, he means that God literally became man as Jesus, and then died for our sins, so that we as humans when we die, could share in God's grace or "become God."