<![CDATA[The Catacombs - All Forums]]> https://thecatacombs.org/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:20:55 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Apologetics: "Errors Build Into Council Texts!" September 23, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8728 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:06:32 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8728 Apologetics: "Errors Build Into Council Texts!"
September 23, 2026 (NH)

]]> Apologetics: "Errors Build Into Council Texts!"
September 23, 2026 (NH)

]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Sacred Liturgy: "Renewal of Baptismal Promises" September 22, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8727 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:58:28 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8727 Sacred Liturgy: "Renewal of Baptismal Promises"
September 22, 2026 (NH)

]]> Sacred Liturgy: "Renewal of Baptismal Promises"
September 22, 2026 (NH)

]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Exodus: Ch. 17 & 18 "Moses Extending Arms Prefigures Christ" September 21, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8726 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:52:54 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8726 Exodus: Ch. 17 & 18 "Moses Extending Arms Prefigures Christ" 
September 22, 2026 (NH)

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September 22, 2026 (NH)

]]> <![CDATA[Fr. Hewko: Work of St. Joseph (10 min. Devotion) September 23, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8725 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:30:33 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8725 Work of St. Joseph (10 min. Devotion)
September 23, 2026 (NH)

]]> Work of St. Joseph (10 min. Devotion)
September 23, 2026 (NH)

]]> <![CDATA[The Latest With The Fake Sister Lucy Project: World Famous Forensic Artist Confirms Research]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8724 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:03:22 +0000 SAguide]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8724 The Latest With The Fake Sister Lucy Project: World Famous
 Forensic Artist Confirms Research

]]> The Latest With The Fake Sister Lucy Project: World Famous
 Forensic Artist Confirms Research

]]> <![CDATA[St. Matthew Confronts the Magicians of Ethiopia]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8723 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:10:40 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8723 St. Matthew Confronts the Magicians of Ethiopia
Adapted from The Golden Legend and Saint Matthew on Sancteo

TIA |  September 19, 2026

The distribution of the provinces having been made, St. Matthew immediately took the road to Ethiopia to bring the Faith there. He passed through Egypt, where his ardor in announcing the law of grace allowed him to overcome an infinity of obstacles that presented themselves there.

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St. Matthew received the mission to convert Ethiopia

He showed the way to Heaven to these peoples, as much by the holiness of his life as by the strength of his doctrine and the brilliance of his miracles.

From Egypt, he went to Ethiopia, to the city of Naddaver, a city considerable for its population as the metropolis of the Ethiopian Kingdom. There he was received and lodged by that eunuch of Queen Candace whom St. Philip the Deacon had baptized, as is reported in the Acts of the Apostles.

This eunuch asked St. Matthew how he spoke and understood so many tongues. And then Matthew told him how the Holy Ghost descended and had given to the Apostles all knowledge of tongues. And that just as those who were emboldened by their pride to build a tower to reach Heaven were beset by a confusion of tongues, so in likewise manner the Apostles of Jesus Christ made a tower of the knowledge of tongues, but not out of stones but of virtues, so that all who believe shall mount up into Heaven.


Magicians & dragons

The Saint found in this city two magicians, named Zaroes and Arfaxat, who, by their prestidigitation, deceived these poor idolaters, causing them illnesses and then healing them in order to have them render, through these false miracles, respects that were not due to them.

When they saw that the Apostle was uncovering their sorcery and demonstrating their falseness to the people, they brought forth by their diabolical art two terrifying dragons which cast fire and sulphur by their mouths and nostrils and slew men to cast terror throughout the city.

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The dragons became gentle as lambs & slept at his feet

Then, the Apostle Matthew, having first made the Sign of the Cross , went out to them. As soon as these dragons saw him, they were rendered as gentle as lambs and came and slept at his feet. And when the people were assembled, he commanded the dragons to depart without hurting anyone and return to their caves, and they went anon.

Then Matthew said to the enchanters: “Where is your craft? Awake your monsters if you can, and I will pray Our Lord that He soon execute on you what you would have committed against me.”

This wonder began to reassure the inhabitants against the charms of these impostors and gave the holy Apostle the means to announce the Savior to them, by whose virtue he had performed this prodigy. Thus many were converted by his preaching that day and embraced the Christian religion.


He raises the King of Ethiopia's son

But another miracle, much more striking than the first, allowed him to make even more considerable progress and completely destroyed the credit of the two magicians. Death had taken the King's son, named Euphranor, and the two enchanters were called so that they might raise him. But this they could not do. So, instead they tried to make the King believe that the youth had been ravished into the company of the gods, and that he should make a temple and an image to him.

But the foresaid eunuch of Queen Candace sent for the Apostle St. Matthew, who invoked the name of Jesus Christ over the body of the deceased and immediately restored him to life.

And then the King, who was named Egippus, sent for all the men in his provinces saying to them: “Come and see ye God in the likeness of a man.”

And then the people came with crowns of gold and diverse manner of sacrifices, they wanted to sacrifice to him. But St. Matthew beheld them and said: “What are you doing, men? I am not God, but I am servant of Our Lord.”

And he commanded instead that a great church to the one true God and Christ should be built of the gold and silver that they had brought. This was done and in that church, the Apostle sat and taught 33 years, and converted all Ethiopia to the Faith of Christ. And so King Egippus, with his wife and his daughter, and all the people, were baptized.

How marvelously consoled our Apostle was when Princess Ephigenia, daughter of the King of Ethiopia and a prodigy of beauty and wisdom, came to the Apostle to be consecrated to virginity. Having heard him speak of the happiness of the virgins who choose Jesus Christ as their Spouse, that noble Princess resolved to keep her virginity and to consecrate to God alone all the inclinations of her heart.

Her example excited many other young girls to do the same, and the Saint advised them all to withdraw together into a private house to live there under the guidance of the Princess, as the faithful Spouses of the Son of God. And then the Apostle consecrated Ephigenia, the King's daughter, and made her mistress and governess of more than 200 virgins.

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St. Ephigenia in Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosario dos Pretos in Salvador, Brazil
]]> St. Matthew Confronts the Magicians of Ethiopia
Adapted from The Golden Legend and Saint Matthew on Sancteo

TIA |  September 19, 2026

The distribution of the provinces having been made, St. Matthew immediately took the road to Ethiopia to bring the Faith there. He passed through Egypt, where his ardor in announcing the law of grace allowed him to overcome an infinity of obstacles that presented themselves there.

[Image: H301_Mat.jpg]

St. Matthew received the mission to convert Ethiopia

He showed the way to Heaven to these peoples, as much by the holiness of his life as by the strength of his doctrine and the brilliance of his miracles.

From Egypt, he went to Ethiopia, to the city of Naddaver, a city considerable for its population as the metropolis of the Ethiopian Kingdom. There he was received and lodged by that eunuch of Queen Candace whom St. Philip the Deacon had baptized, as is reported in the Acts of the Apostles.

This eunuch asked St. Matthew how he spoke and understood so many tongues. And then Matthew told him how the Holy Ghost descended and had given to the Apostles all knowledge of tongues. And that just as those who were emboldened by their pride to build a tower to reach Heaven were beset by a confusion of tongues, so in likewise manner the Apostles of Jesus Christ made a tower of the knowledge of tongues, but not out of stones but of virtues, so that all who believe shall mount up into Heaven.


Magicians & dragons

The Saint found in this city two magicians, named Zaroes and Arfaxat, who, by their prestidigitation, deceived these poor idolaters, causing them illnesses and then healing them in order to have them render, through these false miracles, respects that were not due to them.

When they saw that the Apostle was uncovering their sorcery and demonstrating their falseness to the people, they brought forth by their diabolical art two terrifying dragons which cast fire and sulphur by their mouths and nostrils and slew men to cast terror throughout the city.

[Image: H301_Dra.jpg]

The dragons became gentle as lambs & slept at his feet

Then, the Apostle Matthew, having first made the Sign of the Cross , went out to them. As soon as these dragons saw him, they were rendered as gentle as lambs and came and slept at his feet. And when the people were assembled, he commanded the dragons to depart without hurting anyone and return to their caves, and they went anon.

Then Matthew said to the enchanters: “Where is your craft? Awake your monsters if you can, and I will pray Our Lord that He soon execute on you what you would have committed against me.”

This wonder began to reassure the inhabitants against the charms of these impostors and gave the holy Apostle the means to announce the Savior to them, by whose virtue he had performed this prodigy. Thus many were converted by his preaching that day and embraced the Christian religion.


He raises the King of Ethiopia's son

But another miracle, much more striking than the first, allowed him to make even more considerable progress and completely destroyed the credit of the two magicians. Death had taken the King's son, named Euphranor, and the two enchanters were called so that they might raise him. But this they could not do. So, instead they tried to make the King believe that the youth had been ravished into the company of the gods, and that he should make a temple and an image to him.

But the foresaid eunuch of Queen Candace sent for the Apostle St. Matthew, who invoked the name of Jesus Christ over the body of the deceased and immediately restored him to life.

And then the King, who was named Egippus, sent for all the men in his provinces saying to them: “Come and see ye God in the likeness of a man.”

And then the people came with crowns of gold and diverse manner of sacrifices, they wanted to sacrifice to him. But St. Matthew beheld them and said: “What are you doing, men? I am not God, but I am servant of Our Lord.”

And he commanded instead that a great church to the one true God and Christ should be built of the gold and silver that they had brought. This was done and in that church, the Apostle sat and taught 33 years, and converted all Ethiopia to the Faith of Christ. And so King Egippus, with his wife and his daughter, and all the people, were baptized.

How marvelously consoled our Apostle was when Princess Ephigenia, daughter of the King of Ethiopia and a prodigy of beauty and wisdom, came to the Apostle to be consecrated to virginity. Having heard him speak of the happiness of the virgins who choose Jesus Christ as their Spouse, that noble Princess resolved to keep her virginity and to consecrate to God alone all the inclinations of her heart.

Her example excited many other young girls to do the same, and the Saint advised them all to withdraw together into a private house to live there under the guidance of the Princess, as the faithful Spouses of the Son of God. And then the Apostle consecrated Ephigenia, the King's daughter, and made her mistress and governess of more than 200 virgins.

[Image: H301_Eph.jpg]

St. Ephigenia in Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosario dos Pretos in Salvador, Brazil
]]> <![CDATA[Holy Mass in New Hampshire - September 27, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8722 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:04:54 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8722 Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
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Date: Sunday, September 27, 2026


Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
              Holy Mass - 10:30 AM


Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
                      66 Gove's Lane
                      Wentworth, NH 03282


Contact: 315-391-7575                   
                  sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com]]> Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
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Date: Sunday, September 27, 2026


Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
              Holy Mass - 10:30 AM


Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
                      66 Gove's Lane
                      Wentworth, NH 03282


Contact: 315-391-7575                   
                  sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com]]> <![CDATA[Leo XIV decides to exclude Roman Canon for all papal Masses on France visit]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8721 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:35:06 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8721 Leo XIV decides to exclude Roman Canon for all papal Masses on France visit
The missal at all three scheduled Masses will use Eucharistic Prayer III, spoken in French, instead of Eucharistic Prayer I, the ancient Roman Canon.
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Pope Leo XIV


(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has chosen to exclude the Roman Canon for all three papal Masses to be offered during his upcoming visit to France.

The missal at all three scheduled Masses — in Paris, Lourdes, and Metz — will use Eucharistic Prayer III, spoken in French, instead of Eucharistic Prayer I, the ancient Roman Canon.

This continues a trend of the current and previous pontificates.

InfoVaticana suggests that the decision to exclude the Roman Canon “takes on special significance in Lourdes,” which is the central celebration of the Pope’s visit.

“With the Creed and Gloria sung in Gregorian chant and the Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Our Father in Latin. In such a carefully prepared setting, Eucharistic Prayer I — the most ancient and venerable of the Roman rite, the only one of the Latin Church for fourteen centuries — would have been the natural choice,” asserted InfoVaticana. “The organizers have once again preferred the anaphora composed in 1968.”

“The first months of the pontificate raised hopes of a recovery of the Roman Canon in papal liturgy, an emblem of continuity with the millennial tradition of the Church of Rome” explained InfoVaticana. “Trip after trip that hope fades: Eucharistic Prayer III has become the default option of the Office of Liturgical Celebrations, even on the most solemn occasions.”

News that the French papal Masses will exclude the Roman Missal follows reports that Pope Leo has ignored audience requests from traditionalist Summorum Pontificum pilgrims.

Leo will visit France September 25–28.]]> Leo XIV decides to exclude Roman Canon for all papal Masses on France visit
The missal at all three scheduled Masses will use Eucharistic Prayer III, spoken in French, instead of Eucharistic Prayer I, the ancient Roman Canon.
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Pope Leo XIV


(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has chosen to exclude the Roman Canon for all three papal Masses to be offered during his upcoming visit to France.

The missal at all three scheduled Masses — in Paris, Lourdes, and Metz — will use Eucharistic Prayer III, spoken in French, instead of Eucharistic Prayer I, the ancient Roman Canon.

This continues a trend of the current and previous pontificates.

InfoVaticana suggests that the decision to exclude the Roman Canon “takes on special significance in Lourdes,” which is the central celebration of the Pope’s visit.

“With the Creed and Gloria sung in Gregorian chant and the Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Our Father in Latin. In such a carefully prepared setting, Eucharistic Prayer I — the most ancient and venerable of the Roman rite, the only one of the Latin Church for fourteen centuries — would have been the natural choice,” asserted InfoVaticana. “The organizers have once again preferred the anaphora composed in 1968.”

“The first months of the pontificate raised hopes of a recovery of the Roman Canon in papal liturgy, an emblem of continuity with the millennial tradition of the Church of Rome” explained InfoVaticana. “Trip after trip that hope fades: Eucharistic Prayer III has become the default option of the Office of Liturgical Celebrations, even on the most solemn occasions.”

News that the French papal Masses will exclude the Roman Missal follows reports that Pope Leo has ignored audience requests from traditionalist Summorum Pontificum pilgrims.

Leo will visit France September 25–28.]]> <![CDATA[200 masked cyclists attack March for Life in Switzerland]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8720 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:30:30 +0000 Stone]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8720 200 masked cyclists attack March for Life in Switzerland
Far-left agitators tried to disrupt the pro-life event with firecrackers, knocking over trash bins,
and blocking the route at multiple points, in the latest example of pro-abortion violence.

Sep 22, 2026
OERLIKON, Zurich (LifeSiteNews) – More than 2,200 pro-lifers gathered on Saturday for the Swiss March for Life, defying hostility from local officials as well as an estimated 200 masked cyclists who attempted to disrupt and terrorize the event.

EWTN News reports that an estimated 2,200 pro-lifers, accompanied by a police presence to ensure security, rallied under the theme of “Together for Life,” advocating legal protection for the voiceless preborn as well as for fathers to step up to their responsibilities both to their children and the babies’ mothers.

Lamenting the abortions of 200,000 preborn babies since 2002, Swiss March for Life president Beatrice Gall said the March is an effort to help counteract the fact that “there is no public debate and no objective examination of the facts; instead, people remain silent about the high abortion rates, the suffering this causes many people, and the consequences thereof.”

“Advocating for human life is not backward — it’s forward-looking!” she added, taking a “new wave of interest and strong commitment” from young people as a hopeful sign for the future.

Far-left saboteurs attempted to undermine the demonstration with firecrackers, knocking over trash bins, and otherwise blocking the route at multiple points. “The police repeatedly asked them to leave before resorting to the water cannons,” SWI adds. “However, the counter-demonstrators reappeared at several points along the route.”

For years, Zurich officials have kept the event out of the city center, relegating it to the outer commercial and residential district of Oerlikon. Officials have claimed this is to minimize such disruptions, but pro-lifers argue they are held to a double-standard that effectively gives violent agitators power to decide who is welcome in the public square. Pro-lifers argued that the authorities’ success in managing the counter-protestors undermined the case for keeping the march out of the city center.

“Abortion is a severe matter, and it deserves to be touched face to face, in a loving way,” ProLife Europe’s regional director for Switzerland, Jonas Streule, told the crowd. “We rarely leave a conversation without having made someone think about an opinion they simply adopted from the dominant culture.”

This is far from the first year Swiss pro-lifers have had to worry about pro-abortion violence for merely speaking out. As LifeSiteNews reported at the time, the 2020 March for Life was canceled after police warned that up to 1,000 counter-protesters planned to block the March. Earlier that year, a partner organization found an animal carcass and maggots in its mailbox, and the year before counter-protestors had gone so far as to light barrels on fire.]]> 200 masked cyclists attack March for Life in Switzerland
Far-left agitators tried to disrupt the pro-life event with firecrackers, knocking over trash bins,
and blocking the route at multiple points, in the latest example of pro-abortion violence.

Sep 22, 2026
OERLIKON, Zurich (LifeSiteNews) – More than 2,200 pro-lifers gathered on Saturday for the Swiss March for Life, defying hostility from local officials as well as an estimated 200 masked cyclists who attempted to disrupt and terrorize the event.

EWTN News reports that an estimated 2,200 pro-lifers, accompanied by a police presence to ensure security, rallied under the theme of “Together for Life,” advocating legal protection for the voiceless preborn as well as for fathers to step up to their responsibilities both to their children and the babies’ mothers.

Lamenting the abortions of 200,000 preborn babies since 2002, Swiss March for Life president Beatrice Gall said the March is an effort to help counteract the fact that “there is no public debate and no objective examination of the facts; instead, people remain silent about the high abortion rates, the suffering this causes many people, and the consequences thereof.”

“Advocating for human life is not backward — it’s forward-looking!” she added, taking a “new wave of interest and strong commitment” from young people as a hopeful sign for the future.

Far-left saboteurs attempted to undermine the demonstration with firecrackers, knocking over trash bins, and otherwise blocking the route at multiple points. “The police repeatedly asked them to leave before resorting to the water cannons,” SWI adds. “However, the counter-demonstrators reappeared at several points along the route.”

For years, Zurich officials have kept the event out of the city center, relegating it to the outer commercial and residential district of Oerlikon. Officials have claimed this is to minimize such disruptions, but pro-lifers argue they are held to a double-standard that effectively gives violent agitators power to decide who is welcome in the public square. Pro-lifers argued that the authorities’ success in managing the counter-protestors undermined the case for keeping the march out of the city center.

“Abortion is a severe matter, and it deserves to be touched face to face, in a loving way,” ProLife Europe’s regional director for Switzerland, Jonas Streule, told the crowd. “We rarely leave a conversation without having made someone think about an opinion they simply adopted from the dominant culture.”

This is far from the first year Swiss pro-lifers have had to worry about pro-abortion violence for merely speaking out. As LifeSiteNews reported at the time, the 2020 March for Life was canceled after police warned that up to 1,000 counter-protesters planned to block the March. Earlier that year, a partner organization found an animal carcass and maggots in its mailbox, and the year before counter-protestors had gone so far as to light barrels on fire.]]> <![CDATA[Fr. Ruiz Sermons: 2026 09 20 DIFERENCIA ENTRE BIENES NATURALES Y BIENES SOBRENATURALE]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8719 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:10:00 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8719 DIFERENCIA ENTRE BIENES NATURALES Y BIENES SOBRENATURALES
Domingo 17° Dom desp de Pentecostès  2026 09 20

]]> DIFERENCIA ENTRE BIENES NATURALES Y BIENES SOBRENATURALES
Domingo 17° Dom desp de Pentecostès  2026 09 20

]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Exodus: Ch 16 & 17 "Manna Prefigures Holy Eucharist" September 21, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8718 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:52:11 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8718 Exodus: Ch 16 & 17  "Manna Prefigures Holy Eucharist"
September 21, 2026 (NH)

]]> Exodus: Ch 16 & 17  "Manna Prefigures Holy Eucharist"
September 21, 2026 (NH)

]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: History: "From Protestant Revolution to Modern World" September 21, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8717 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:06:04 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8717 History: "From Protestant Revolution to Modern World"
September 21, 2026 (NH)

]]> History: "From Protestant Revolution to Modern World"
September 21, 2026 (NH)

]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: "Mirari Vos" of Pope Gregory XVI {cont'd} September 21, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8716 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:01:09 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8716 "Mirari Vos" of Pope Gregory XVI {cont'd}
September 21, 2026 (NH)

Y]]> "Mirari Vos" of Pope Gregory XVI {cont'd}
September 21, 2026 (NH)

Y]]> <![CDATA[Oratory Conference: Apologetics- "Opening Speech of Vatican Council II" September 21, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8715 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:16:50 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8715 "Opening Speech of Vatican Council II"
September 21, 2026 (NH)

]]> "Opening Speech of Vatican Council II"
September 21, 2026 (NH)

]]> <![CDATA[Fr. Hewko: Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist September 21, 2026]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8714 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:24:14 +0000 Deus Vult]]> https://thecatacombs.org/showthread.php?tid=8714 St. Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist 
September 21, 2026 (NH)

]]> St. Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist 
September 21, 2026 (NH)

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