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  • Father Horgan whipped his rosary over the deacon's neck and yanked it taut.

    The Last Sacrament Thomas Pluck 2011

  • A man in my husband's class at church once told him that he grew up in a church where the deacon's wives met the young ladies at the door with lap cloths and they handed them out and were instructed to cover themselves when they sat down.

    New Link 2008

  • If a hair of the young deacon's head has been harmed, you shall answer for it.

    His Disposition 2010

  • State legislators who propose christian license plates and church leaders who surf porno sites on their computers at church and others who screw members of their own congregation be boy, girl or the deacon's wife.

    Poll: McCain Ahead In Florida 2009

  • Constituted a quasi-bishop in the temporal order, the French king was therefore appropriately clad for his coronation in a deacon's dalmatic and was for centuries recognized by the other rulers of

    Democracy, Monarchy and the Fourth Commandment de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Yesterday as I attended a Eucharist Holy Hour, the deacon's homily centered on rationalism.

    Moral decisions in voting de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Apparently, under the church's rules, if you want to kick somebody out because of how they voted in a presidential election, you have to do so at a business meeting, not a deacon's meeting.

    Is That Legal?: religion Archives 2006

  • Constituted a quasi-bishop in the temporal order, the French king was therefore appropriately clad for his coronation in a deacon's dalmatic and was for centuries recognized by the other rulers of

    Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Which is not to say that I don't appreciate those defunct ancestors who made me the man I am today, including the French-Canadian housewife who started her second family before ending her first marriage, and the deacon's son booted from his father's church for tippling.

    For Me, Every Day Is Ancestor Appreciation Day 2006

  • Yesterday as I attended a Eucharist Holy Hour, the deacon's homily centered on rationalism.

    Archive 2008-02-10 de Brantigny........................ 2008

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