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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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PEACE OF GOD

The permanent immunity from armed hostility legislated by the Church in the early Middle Ages. It anathematized all persons who attacked noncombatants or invaded sanctuaries. Pax Dei laid severe penalties on those who plundered clerics, merchants, peasants, women, or children. and it was enforced by associations organized for this purpose.

Fri13 March
Lent

Friday of the Third Week of Lent

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Good Friday is three weeks away. The conflict between Jesus and the religious leaders of his time continues to intensify as the Third Week of Lent draws to an end. In today’s gospel reading, one of the Temple scribes gives Jesus an orthodoxy check, asking him to name the greatest of the Commandments. The answer…

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