Author: wmc

They resolved not to be bogged down by debates over what they considered smaller matters which often admitted passages into the texts that did not convey the full thrust of the document being passed.

We have all felt jolted out of the habitual, and now have to make a more conscious choice of the words we say at Mass. It is uncomfortable and perhaps at times embarrassing as we juggle the old and the new.

The extraordinary expenditures placed a heavy burden on the Jerusalem peasantry. This was compounded by large demands for tithes, tributes and taxes. No account was taken of the overlapping claims of king, high priest, and Rome, creating a triple demand that bled the country and people to death.