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  • It is the group Cantores in Ecclesia, one of the most extraordinary liturgical vocal ensembles in the United States, with a recorded sung Mass, start to finish, in Latin.

    Sung Mass in Latin 2009

  • You're spot on wrt how good the animations are in Ecclesia; it's all about the backflip, and the way her hair moves (also: the Skeleton boss's shadow; that's just awesome in realtime).

    Still Alive SVGL 2008

  • Deus, qui in Ecclesia tua nova semper instauras exempla virtutum: da populo tuo beati Andreæ Confessoris tui atque Pontificis ita sequi vestigia; ut assequatur et præmia.

    Leap Year -- Day John 2008

  • Ben -- hmm, Ecclesia is more like Portrait than Dawn, but not by much.

    Still Alive SVGL 2008

  • Note 68: Salvo Burci, fol. 106ra: statim representatus fuit fructus matrimonii, scilicet, pueri, igitur possunt cognoscere sapientes quod istud importat magnum misterium in Ecclesia dei.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • There remain eighty-four texts in which the word Ecclesia occurs.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • As signifying the Church, the word Ecclesia is used by Christian writers, sometimes in a wider, sometimes in a more restricted sense.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Andrewes, in his "Tortura Torti" (1609) ridicules the phrase Ecclesia

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • When the word Ecclesia, in the Apocalypse is rendered "Church," and the word

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

  • Gospels, and the Acts (and not to the later Pauline Epistles), and we ought to use the word Ecclesia in the sense in which it is there used; and not, surely, in the newer and special sense which it acquired, and in which it is used, in the Epistles.

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

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