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AFFUSION

Baptism administered by the pouring of water, practiced already in the first century of the Christian era, as testified by the Didache.

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Thursday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. John Paul II, Pope

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. John Paul II (1920-2005). Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. After his ordination to the priesthood and theological studies in Rome, he returned to his homeland and resumed various pastoral and academic tasks. He became first…

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