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Prayer Vigil on Iran

Posted on 02/28/2007 11:05:14 AM PST by dervish

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1 posted on 02/28/2007 11:05:15 AM PST by dervish
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To: SJackson; Alouette

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2 posted on 02/28/2007 11:06:05 AM PST by dervish ("To fight for King and Country is to fight for the future.But a barren society has no future" Steyn)
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The Iranians are the ones that better start praying because their punk-slapping is at hand.
3 posted on 02/28/2007 11:26:36 AM PST by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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4 posted on 02/28/2007 11:56:28 AM PST by SJackson (No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms, Thomas Jefferson)
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I generally refer to Pres. Ahmamadjihadi as "Haman."


5 posted on 02/28/2007 12:07:06 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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Ironic, tommorrow's first reading at daily mass is going to be a reading from the book of Esther.


6 posted on 02/28/2007 12:30:27 PM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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File under....

There are no coincidences? ;-)


7 posted on 02/28/2007 12:41:57 PM PST by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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"Ironic, tommorrow's first reading at daily mass is going to be a reading from the book of Esther."

Not really. The Roman Catholic (and Anglican and Orthodox) church calendars are (very) loosely based on the Jewish year, each in some form or fashion.

The Fast of Esther is tomorrow --- 11 Adar, 5767 (Thu 3/1/2007) and Purim is 14 Adar, 5767 (Sun 3/4/2007).

Lots of hung over Jews monday.


8 posted on 02/28/2007 12:47:43 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: pinz-n-needlez

See post 8. Less mysterious.


9 posted on 02/28/2007 12:48:11 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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LOL Hmmmm.


10 posted on 02/28/2007 12:52:44 PM PST by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Thanks for the response back. The passage in question is Esther C: 12, 14-16, 23-25. From my Bible, a RC one, it is called the prayer of Esther.


11 posted on 02/28/2007 1:31:09 PM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Also during the Christian Lent, different readings of the Jewish scriptures are read in regards to what in my church is called salvation history or the people who are a part of.


12 posted on 02/28/2007 1:34:39 PM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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I believe that prayer to be a later-time addition to the Book.

Esther is (in the Hebrew version) one of only two books of the Bible that do not directly mention God (the other is Song of Songs). It is the only book of the Tanakh that is not represented among the Dead Sea scrolls. It has often been compared to the first half of the Book of Daniel and to the deuterocanonical Books of Tobit and Judith for its subject matter.

Additions to Esther

An additional six chapters appear interspersed in Esther in the Septuagint, the Greek translation, which then was noted by Jerome in compiling the Latin Vulgate; additionally, the Greek text contains many small changes in the meaning of the main text.

The extra chapters include several prayers to God, perhaps because it was felt that the above-mentioned lack of mention of God was inappropriate in a holy book. Jerome recognized them as additions not present in the Hebrew Text and placed them at the end of his Latin translation as chapters 10:4-16:24. However, some modern Roman Catholic English Bibles restore the Septuagint order, such as Esther in the NAB.


13 posted on 02/28/2007 1:51:36 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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More from Freeper University.

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14 posted on 02/28/2007 3:06:48 PM PST by happygrl
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"Lots of hung over Jews monday."

;-)


15 posted on 02/28/2007 4:36:12 PM PST by dervish ("To fight for King and Country is to fight for the future.But a barren society has no future" Steyn)
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16 posted on 03/01/2007 4:21:53 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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17 posted on 03/01/2007 4:39:54 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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The Iranians are the ones that better start praying because their punk-slapping is at hand.

I hope you're right, but with the Dummycraps in power I'm afraid they're safe for awhile, and their modern-day Haman probably knows it too :-(

18 posted on 03/01/2007 5:02:01 AM PST by Tabi Katz
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Turns out that "Ahmadinejad" contains all the letters of "Haman." In English, at least.

I'm impressed. Other than the ZOA, all the organizations listed are ultra-liberal and probably don't even celebrate Purim.

19 posted on 03/01/2007 5:04:04 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Zakhor 'et 'asher-`asah lekha `Amaleq, baderekh betze'tekhem miMitzrayim.)
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To: dervish

Can non-Jews join you in your prayers?


20 posted on 03/01/2007 6:01:59 AM PST by McGavin999 ("Hard is not Hopeless" General Petraeus)
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