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echoblu edited the glossary entries of Catholic Customs and Traditions Friday, October 14, 2011.

• Added a term: Pascha
• Added a term: Ember
• Added a term: Rogation
• Added a term: Agape
• Added a term: Shrove
• Added a term: Maundy
• Added a term: Triduum

echoblu edited the table of contents of Catholic Customs and Traditions Friday, October 14, 2011.

• Introduction

  Part One — Religious Traditions

  1. The Nature of Religious Traditions
  - Human and Limited
  - Subject to Change
  - Effective
  - Cyclic
  - Based on Real Life
  - Earthiness
  - Religious Persecution
  - Traditions in a Technological Age

  Part Two — The Church Year

  2. The Church Year
  - Calendars
  - Church Year
  - Ancient Christian Centers
  - Evolution of the Church Year
  - Annual Pascha
  - Christmas Cycle
  - Temporal Cycle
  - Sanctoral Cycle
  - Devotional Feasts

  3. Sunday
  - Most Ancient of Traditions
  - First Day of the Week
  - From Sunday Evening...
  - ...to Sunday Morning
  - Agape Meals
  - Blessing of Lights
  - Lord's Day
  - Sunday
  - Sunday Themes
  - Sunday Assembly
  - Sunday Obligation
  - Day of Rest
  - Servile Work
  - Blue Laws
  - Contemporary Observance of Sunday

  4. Weekdays
  - Origin of the Week
  - Private Prayer
  - Public Prayer
  - Liturgical Hours
  - Origin of the Rosary
  - Revival of the Liturgy of the Hours
  - Family Prayer
  - Meal Prayer
  - Bedtime Prayer
  - Fasting
  - Friday Abstinence
  - Daily Mass
  - Daily Themes

  5. Seasons
  - Cycle of Seaons
  - Ember Days
  - Rogation Days

  Part Three — The Temporal Cycle

  6. Advent
  - Beginning of Church Year
  - Theme
  - Origin
  - Penitential Theme
  - Mixed Theme
  - Advent Wreath
  - Jesse Tree
  - Advent House
  - Advent Calendar
  - Manger
  - Advent Colors

  7. Christmas
  - Origin of Christmas
  - Date of Christmas
  - Non-Christian Influence
  - Popularity of Christmas
  - Secular Christmas
  - Christmas in North America
  - Sacred and Secular
  - Christmas Candle
  - Window Lights
  - Luminaries
  - Hanukkah
  - Kwanzaa
  - Nativity Scene
  - Las Posadas
  - Oplatek
  - Christmas Tree
  - Christmas Carols
  - Mistletoe
  - Holy
  - Poinsettia
  - Christmas Cards
  - Christmas Pageants
  - Exchanging Gifts
  - Kriss Kringle
  - Santa Claus

  8. Christmastime
  - Twelve Days of Christmas
  - Feast Days of Martyrs
  - Holy Family
  - January 1
  - New Year's Day
  - Epiphany
  - Magi
  - Blessing of Homes
  - Candlemas
  - Annunciation

  9. Lent
  - Origin
  - Lent and Baptism
  - Penitential Theme
  - Forty Days
  - Mardi Gras
  - Paczki
  - Shrove Tuesday
  - Ash Wednesday
  - Lenten Atmosphere
  - Fasting and Abstinence
  - Popular Penances
  - Stations of the Cross
  - Pretzels
  - Hot Cross Buns
  - Recent Trends

  10. Holy Week
  - The Pascha, or Passover
  - Holy Week
  - Sacred Triduum
  - Palm Sunday
  - Palms
  - Preparation Days
  - Easter Duty
  - Spring Cleaning
  - Holy Thursday
  - Washing of Feet
  - Chapel of Adoration
  - Stripping the Altar
  - Forty Hours Devotion
  - Chrism Mass
  - Seder
  - Good Friday
  - Veneration of the Cross
  - Mass of the Pre-Sanctified
  - Fasting
  - Tre Ore
  - Hot Cross Buns

  11. The Easter Vigil
  - Easter Vigil
  - Easter Fire
  - Easter Candle
  - Holy Saturday
  - Morning Liturgy
  - Renewal of Easter Vigil
  - Blessing of Easter Baskets

  12. Easter
  - Date of Easter
  - Fertility Theme
  - Name of Easter
  - Easter Sunday Mass
  - Easter Duty
  - Sunrise Services
  - New Easter Clothes
  - Easter Parade
  - Easter Lamb
  - Easter Ham
  - Easter Eggs
  - Easter Bunnies
  - Easter Lilies
  - Mystagogia
  - Pentecost

  13. Ordinary Time
  - Trinity Sunday
  - Corpus Christi
  - Corpus Christi Procession
  - Benediction
  - Feast of the Sacred Heart
  - Christ the King

  Part Four — The Sanctoral Cycle

  14. Communion of Saints
  - Martyrs and Persecution
  - Confessors
  - Other Saints
  - Spread of Devotion to Saints
  - Abuses
  - Communion of Saints
  - Remembering the Saints
  - Patron Saints
  - Holy Days
  - Feast Days
  - Relics
  - Images
  - Praying to Saints
  - Litanies
  - Feast of All Saints
  - Canonization
  - Halo

  15. Mary
  - Hyperdulia
  - Early Cult
  - Intercessory Role
  - Modern Devotion
  - Cautions
  - Little Office of Our Lady
  - Hail Mary
  - Rosary
  - Antiphons
  - Saturday
  - May and Mother's Day
  - Month of the Rosary
  - Marian Litanies
  - Angelus
  - Apparitions
  - Images
  - Scapular
  - Blessing of Flowers and Herbs

  16. Purgatory
  - Purgatory
  - Prayer for the Dead
  - November 2
  - Indulgences
  - Stipends
  - Visiting Graves
  - November
  - Black as Liturgical Color

  17. Popular Saints and Legends
  - St. Christopher
  - St. Nicholas
  - St. Valentine
  - St. Patrick

  Part Five — Sacraments and Sacramentals

  18. Sacraments
  - Principle of Sacramentality
  - Origin of Catholic Sacraments
  - Baptism: An Initiation Process
  - Baptistries
  - Private Baptism
  - Renewal of Baptism
  - Confirmation
  - Order of Initiation Restored
  - Eucharist
  - Eucharistic Sacrifice
  - Distancing from Laity
  - Deterioration of Meaning and Practice
  - Renewal of Eucharist
  - Reconciliation
  - Sin: Human Experience
  - Gospel of Reconciliation
  - Beginnings of Ritual Penance
  - Public Penance
  - Private Penance
  - Purgatory and Indulgences
  - Contemporary Practice
  - Anointing of the Sick
  - Transition to Anointing of the Dying
  - Current Practices
  - Marriage
  - A Problem with Sex
  - Marriage Becomes Sacrament
  - Current Thinking and Practice
  - Orders
  - Origin of Catholic Priesthood
  - Ordination Process
  - Expanding Orders of Clergy
  - Presbyters Become Priests
  - A Different Lifestyle
  - Post-Reformation Priesthood
  - Current Trends
  - Priest Garb

  19. Sacramentals
  - Definition
  - Popular Devotions
  - Principle of Sacramentality
  - St. Blaise and Blessing of Throats
  - Gestures and Bodily Positions
  - Standing
  - Facing East
  - Kneeling
  - Prostration
  - Genuflecting
  - Bowing
  - Sitting
  - The Raising of Eyes and Hands
  - Laying on of Hands
  - Folding Hands
  - Striking the Breast
  - Sign of the Cross
  - Music
  - Ritual Words
  - Litanies
  - Altar
  - Lights
  - Candles
  - Votive and Vigil Lights
  - Holy Water
  - Vestments
  - Bells
  - Medals
  - Miraculous Medal
  - Incense
  - Colors
  - Symbols
  - Crosses

  Part Six — Special Days

  20. Halloween
  21. Thanksgiving
  22. Memorial Day

  Selected Bibliography
  Index

echoblu edited the first edition of The Well and the Mine Thursday, December 2, 2010.

• changed the ISBN: 978-1-59448-449-09781594484490

echoblu edited the series & lists of The Tales of Beedle the Bard Monday, November 1, 2010.

• Added this book in the series: Harry Potter (Primary series) (standard series)

echoblu changed the title of Graphic Novels Sunday, October 31, 2010.

echoblu edited the derivative works of A Preface to Paradise Lost Sunday, October 31, 2010.

• Unmarked this book as a derived work.

echoblu edited the characters of The Blind Man Monday, July 19, 2010.

• Edited the description of Anders Haaberg: The eldest sonmaster of Haaberg farm.farm, and Petter's older brother.

echoblu edited the characters of The Name of the Rose Wednesday, April 7, 2010.

• Removed a character: Brother William
• Removed a character: Joachim
• Removed a character: Peter
• Removed a character: Nicholas
• Removed a character: Salvatore
• Removed a character: Robert
• Removed a character: Gherardo Segarelli
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• Removed a character: Brother Michael
• Removed a character: Alinardo
• Removed a character: Marsilius
• Removed a character: Africae
• Removed a character: Margaret
• Removed a character: Fra Dolcino
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• Removed a character: Paul
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• Removed a character: Vercelli
• Removed a character: Pope John
• Removed a character: Fraticelli
• Removed a character: John Xxii
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• Removed a character: Borges
• Removed a character: Cain
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• Removed a character: Bertrand
• Removed a character: Roger Bacon
• Removed a character: Rachel
• Removed a character: Aymaro
• Removed a character: Adam
• Removed a character: Berengar Talloni
• Removed a character: Orsini

echoblu edited the settings of The Name of the Rose Wednesday, April 7, 2010.

• Removed a setting: Pisa
• Removed a setting: Rome
• Removed a setting: Bald Mountain
• Removed a setting: Provence
• Removed a setting: Middle Ages
• Removed a setting: Avignon
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• Removed a setting: Tuscany

echoblu edited the characters of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil Friday, February 26, 2010.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters
• Added a character: Tom Bombadil: A jolly individual living in the Old Forest
• marked the description of Tom Bombadil as not a spoiler