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Com-moon-ion (Buzz Aldrin)
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| July 22, 2013
| Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Posted on 07/22/2013 1:49:56 PM PDT by NYer
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To: Salvation
satire?
No, sadly. I've heard and read of this incident before.
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posted on
07/22/2013 2:40:40 PM PDT
by
Lee N. Field
("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means.")
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
I’m not going to rag on him for not knowing the Truth about the Holy Mass.
He intended an act of piety. In a way it’s like “planting the flag,” declaring that God is sovereign everywhere and we can never go beyond his loving reach.
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posted on
07/22/2013 2:47:43 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
To: NYer
“Aldrin had received permission from the Presbyterian churchs general assembly to administer it to himself.”
I suppose being on the moon might qualify as an extraordinary circumstance :)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Well, if you can literally claim to be the only Presbyterian within a million miles, maybe you get a pass on doing it alone.
To: Lee N. Field
Bit back in Aldrin’s day wasn’t the PCUSA valid?
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posted on
07/22/2013 2:58:43 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Lee N. Field
But back in Aldrin’s day wasn’t the PCUSA valid?
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posted on
07/22/2013 2:58:54 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: carriage_hill
Wow, I didnt know the lunar module had that kind of artificial gravity, back then. Isnt stuff floating around, if not secured, the ISS space station, even these days? Just wondering...If they were on the moon at the time, the moon does have 1/6 earth's gravity. So if something weighed 6oz, it would weigh 1oz.
Mark
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:02:29 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: NYer
The followers of the moon god must not be too pleased. In sha'a alllah إن شاء الله.
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:06:43 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
To: MarkL
Okay; didn’t know that. I was just amazed that the wine didn’t float-up into drops in the module. Thanks.
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:10:44 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: Colonel_Flagg
Aldrin’s Communion rite is described in Mailer’s OF A FIRE ON THE MOON, page 394 ( copyright 1969.) That’s where I learned of it.
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:11:13 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: NYer
Aldrin was (and is) an incredibly brilliant engineer, and came up with many of the tools and EVA techniques and training eventually used by NASA. IIRC, the submerged EVA simulator was his idea.
Mark
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:14:10 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Salvation
Bit back in Aldrins day wasnt the PCUSA valid?
That would take a bit of analysis. Short answer, sounder than now.
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:34:20 PM PDT
by
Lee N. Field
("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means.")
To: al_c
Catholics - 0 ... because a priest must be present. To my knowledge, no astronauts have been Catholic priests.
Spot on. Only an ordained priest can consecrate the host.
A side-point, there are those who are sick and invalid who cannot make it to Mass. For those people, the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was consecrated at Mass, is delivered to such individuals who are bed-ridden, etc., by an appointed Extra-Ordinary minister of the Eucharist.
Even if Buzz Aldrin was a Catholic, I doubt that he could have been given the opportunity to take the Host with him. Upon consecration, the host is meant to be consumed immediately upon presentation.
To: Alex Murphy
If you'd like to include the PC(USA) within the definition of "Catholic", I won't object. I actually asked whether you put the PC(USA) within the definition of "Presbyterian". I note you changed the subject instead of answering the question.
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:38:31 PM PDT
by
Campion
("Social justice" begins in the womb)
To: Buckeye McFrog
at the time the Moon was God’s house so I guess that makes Buzz a Lunartick!
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:44:33 PM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
To: bert
>Transubstantiation cant occur in a vacuum<
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Wow, was it St. Thomas Aquinas or was it St. Augustine who divulged this to you?
At what minimum atmospheric pressure can transubstantiation begin to take place?
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posted on
07/22/2013 3:59:50 PM PDT
by
353FMG
( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
To: Salvation
I did not know this and thanks for the post describing it.
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posted on
07/22/2013 5:13:50 PM PDT
by
luvie
(All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
To: LUV W
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posted on
07/22/2013 5:16:07 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: stylecouncilor
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posted on
07/23/2013 11:31:27 AM PDT
by
onedoug
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