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: 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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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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Topics: The very personal back story of my conversion to Christianity and Catholicism, visiting my Godmother-to-be and talking to those who started it all; Delving Deeper into Marian Veneration by early Protestants; Readings from St. Augustine’s Confessions: Book IV.

Links: John Calvin’s views on Mary (from Wikipedia); Martin Luther’s views on Mary (from Wikipedia); Biblical Evidence for Catholicism: Mary; Protestant Reformers on Mary; Online works of John Calvin (Public Domain); St. Augustine’s Confessions.

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In Europe, the Reformation and the following Iconoclasm are standard part of history taught in High School. At least everybody heard about it. A history teacher will typically explain the differences between Catholics and Protestants and the reasons why the Protestants were against having statues in churches and against veneration of other persons than God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Since someone with a scientific degree in history explained all this to me, I never had any reason to question this. Until I read some documents myself, that didn’t seem to say the same. For example, all Reformers (Calvin, Luther and Zwingli) write about the Virgin Mary in quite a positive way and think very highly of her. She clearly has a special place.

To my great surprise, I learned that Luther believed in Mary the Mother of God (Theotokos), Mary’s Perpetual Virginity, The Immaculate Conception and even in the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (before it was a Catholic dogma). Luther was of the opinion that Mary should be honored because of this. In my modern eyes, this is a VERY Catholic point of view.

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