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Christ Of The Abyss

Christ Of The Abyss

Metanoia and the painful birth of the new man

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Oct 11, 2022
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Today is October 13 — not an easy day for me. If you’ve been a reader of mine for a long time, you’ll have read my tale of how prayers, as a Catholic, to Our Lady of Fatima (one of the “versions” of the Virgin Mary”), led to my meeting my eventual wife. October 13, 1996, was the day we fell in love. It wasn’t until after we were already engaged, and had…

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