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Flashcards in Catholicism Deck (7)
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1
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Oh dear

A

It’s very difficult being a catholic

2
Q

Christ dying with it

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Nailed hand and foot; hanging over the bed in the night nursery

3
Q

Lord marchmain made the sign of the cross and

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A phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom

4
Q

The chapel showed no

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I’ll effects of its long neglect h

5
Q

I said a prayer

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An ancient, newly-learned form of words

6
Q

Cordelia

There’s him gone and

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Sebastián gone and julia gone. But god won’t let them go for long, you know

7
Q

I caught him with an unseen hook

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And invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread