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	Out of the Depths I Cry to You…

Efrain Alvarado

6-20-2009 2:13 PM

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death, catacombs, saints

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8c7ab395-f4cc-4e8e-b987-20dd35d25ba9/E331CA68-31FE-4CE9-8F1D-ADBEB8FC0494/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/" href="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/" style="font-size: 11px;">cathcandy.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/">“While the catacombs depict the eloquent features of Christian life in the first centuries, they are also a perennial school of faith, hope and charity.
Walking through their tunnels, we breathe an evocative and moving atmosphere. Our gaze pauses on the innumerable series of tombs and on the simplicity they have in common. On the tombs we read the baptismal names of the deceased. As we run through those names, we seem to hear as many voices answering an eschatological call, and we remember the words of Lactantius: “There are neither servants nor masters among us; there is no reason for us to call ourselves brothers, except that we consider ourselves all equals”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/">–John Paul II, <EM>16 January 1998 address to the staff of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cathcandy.wordpress.com/img/5B0B8C60-DE9A-400D-836A-45FD82F712C9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cathcandy.wordpress.com/img/6AD8699B-0513-4A59-8EAC-8E6825A73738" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cathcandy.wordpress.com/img/8A4BD51C-E180-4E50-B6FD-93A8896AABD0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cathcandy.wordpress.com/img/CDEBA996-6F7B-40BD-9FB7-A0FEBF383038" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cathcandy.wordpress.com/img/F9E88FD3-2478-4A1B-A9D0-8EF6FCAE5B1E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cathcandy.wordpress.com/img/1F6DE20C-0997-4D80-94C1-5BD321BEF3FE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cathcandy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/out-of-the-depths-i-cry-to-you/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/cathcandy.wordpress.com/img/00EBAFE6-68D1-4DCD-941E-939F8F22881D" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E331CA68-31FE-4CE9-8F1D-ADBEB8FC0494/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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