Topics: Sound Seeing in Salzburg (Austria).

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Topics: Missing in Action explained, why I don’t want to pod fade; The Apostolic Creed’s “Communion of Saints” and an nice personal Saint story; Salzburg Soundseeing upcoming soon!

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Topics: A tour of the Baroque church of Weltenburg Benedictine Abbey.

Links: Virtual Tour (360 degrees panorama); Weltenburg Abbey Home Page; Saint Columbanus, Saint Maurus (Maur)

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Topics: Black holes, my grandfather passed away, getting back on track, SQPN got SEVEN nominations for the Podcast awards and they need YOUR vote!!; delving deeper into the Sacrament of Confession; sound seeing tour of Weltenburg Abbey in Bavaria (Germany).

Links from this episode: Confession (transcript); Vote for the Podcast Awards; Podcast Awards Vote Page; Weltenburg Photos

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The Sacrament of Penance, also known as the Sacrament of Reconciliation is a Sacrament most Protestant churches don’t know. The exception to this rule are some Lutheran churches. What is this Sacrament and where does it come from? According to the Catholic Encyclopedia:

Penance is a sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ in which forgiveness of sins committed after baptism is granted through the priest’s absolution to those who with true sorrow confess their sins and promise to satisfy for the same. It is called a “sacrament” not simply a function or ceremony, because it is an outward sign instituted by Christ to impart grace to the soul. As an outward sign it comprises the actions of the penitent in presenting himself to the priest and accusing himself of his sins, and the actions of the priest in pronouncing absolution and imposing satisfaction. This whole procedure is usually called, from one of its parts, “confession”, and it is said to take place in the “tribunal of penance”, because it is a judicial process in which the penitent is at once the accuser, the person accused, and the witness, while the priest pronounces judgment and sentence. The grace conferred is deliverance from the guilt of sin and, in the case of mortal sin, from its eternal punishment; hence also reconciliation with God, justification. Finally, the confession is made not in the secrecy of the penitent’s heart nor to a layman as friend and advocate, nor to a representative of human authority, but to a duly ordained priest with requisite jurisdiction and with the “power of the keys”, i.e., the power to forgive sins which Christ granted to His Church.

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Topics: Autumn seriously kicking in; Eucharistic Adoration; Soundseeing in the Alps - Hunting down the mysterious Milka Cow, wandering through mine fields and meeting a stag with a crucifix.

Links: Catholic Encyclopedia about Eucharistic Adoration; Wikipedia Article; Heidelberg Catechism; Westminster Confession of Faith; Saint Hubertus at SQPN’s Saint’s Database; Flickr Set: German Alps.

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Topics: Special Edition: all things Confirmation!

Links from this episode: Sean’s Catholic New Media Roundup Podcast

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Topics: Vacation preparations: away from August 15 until August 29!; What’s the definition of the Church?; Readings from St. Augustine’s Confessions: Book IV and V.

Links: St. Augustine’s Confessions, parts of Book IV and Book V.

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Topics: Being sick, visiting friends, Catechism lessons and tough decisions; differences between Protestantism and Catholicism in interpreting the Holy Scripture; Readings from Confessions by St. Augustine: book III.

Links: St. Augustine’s Confessions; Manichaeism (Wikipedia); Hermeneutics (New Advent); Hermeneutics (Protestant weblog)

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When comparing the Bible in Protestant and Catholic churches both versions differ. Why is that? Why do Protestants have fewer books? Where does the Bible come from? Is Tradition a Catholic invention?

In this article I try to give a more verbose explanation than the one given in “A Journey into the Land of the Spirit” #1. There I explained that the origins of the differences lie in Church history. Basically, Protestants try to be ‘as original as possible’ by using books translated from Hebrew, originating in Palestine, whereas Catholics follow the Tradition, i.e. they use the books that were used by the Christians in the Roman Empire, based on the Greek Septuagint. I will conclude with my own point of view.

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