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: Podcasting from a cottage on the grounds of a Hilversum monastry; How do different Christian denominations view the Real Presence in Bread and Wine during the Eucharist / Lord’s Supper?; A soundseeing tour from Ramsau near Berchtesgaden in the South of Germany.

Links: Real Presence Article on Wikipedia; An article on Luther’s Sacramental Union on Wikipedia; Pictures belonging to the sound seeing tour in this podcast; Show map of the region.

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Topics: Triple Play: three Sacraments in one week!; What are Sacraments and what does it mean?; St. Augustine

Links: St. Augustine - Confessions

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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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The Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed is an ecumenical Christian statement of faith and accepted as such in the Catholic Church (and all churches in communion with this church) plus most branches of Protestantism (Reformed Churches, Presbyterian Churches, Methodist Church and of course the Lutheran and Anglican churches.

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