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Mandeville, LA – This week’s show is a cultural-apologetical romp through the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. This greatly confused and misunderstood dogma of our religion makes sense only in the context of an economy of salvation wherein our acts (our merits and demerits, our sins and our good works) actually have a bearing on our salvation. The Scriptural evidence for Purgatory is considered, mostly in the New Testament, but also in the Old.
Great monuments of Christian civilization are based on this doctrine, including:
In architecture, the chantry chapel — a very popular thing in pre-reformation England;
In drama, act I, scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet;
In poetry, the second whole part of Dante’s Divine Comedy;
In music, a large number of Gregorian and Polyphonic settings, of one particular text written by a Franciscan Blessed (who? LISTEN TO THE SHOW!);
In film, numerous movies whose scores introduce snippets of the chant melody of that same text, films including, I Confess, It’s a Wonderful Life, Star Wars, The Lion King, The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, and Groundhog Day to name but a few.
Episode 418 debuts on April 17, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Schemes and Tropes in Holy Scripture. The Pubcrawlers - The Rattlin Bog — song lyrics at genius.com Parallelism or Parallel Lines […]
Fantastic episode. My wife and I read The Divine Comedy together every year during Lent, and I find the second book to be the most inspiring.
Thank you, Tom. That’s a fantastic custom you and your wife have during Lent. I’m going to tell our school’s literature teacher about that.
Thank you for listening. God bless and Mary keep you.