Holy Prepuce! Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Church

by designs 4 Replies latest social humour

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  designs

  Someone posted this on my Facebook page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce

  Veneration of the Foreskin of Jesus. Of course as a male Jewish baby he would have been circumcised but the 'Holy foreskin' was somehow found and made into a relic. In fact several of them, all claimed to be from baby Jesus, were passed around and held in veneration at several Church sites.

  Mark January 1 as the Day of the Feast Of The Circumcision Of Our Lord celebrated by Traditional roman Catholics and Eastern Rite Catholics.

  I don't think in all of the Catholic bashing the Watchtower and Awake mags have done on Catholicism there ever touched the foreskin of Jesus issue....
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  nugget

  Holy relics form part of the history of the church. There are enough p arts of the true cross to build several crosses and other gruesome remnants of dubious origin. No one denies this but there is a hope amongst the faithful that some of these objects may be real. At least the ambiguity is documented and discussed unlike the ambiguities in the watchtower.
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  cyberjesus

  its late, go to bed
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  Morbidzbaby

  touched the foreskin of Jesus

  Ew....
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  designs

  It is amazing what Christians have venerated over the centuries, I wonder what miracles were attributed to the Holy Prepuce.